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Old 03-02-2007, 01:58 PM
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Re: Carl Jung quotes and trading parallels

Or it might have been:
"Bliss it was in that dawn to be Freud...", etc.
I'm pretty good at getting quotes wrong.
I think it's in Ernest Jones's biography of Freud.

What does your original observation say about Jung? That you can read pretty much anything you want into him in the way that one can with the markets?
Blank slate, Turing machine, all that.
Are you familiar with Nassim Nicholas Taleb's concept of the narrative fallacy?
Look here
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Home and Professional Page
and here
Opacity
Attempting to trade using Elliott Wave analysis myself, I'm very interested in what drives the markets, in the way I think you're referring to by analogy to Jung and the meaning of the integrity of the personality. Is it possible to get beyond what one is tempted to read into markets by virtue of one's participation in them, in the way Jung attempted to get beyond overlaying inappropriate assumptions on his patients? What would an empirical approach to the markets really look like? Has anyone tried it? How would we know?? Thoughts???

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