What’s My Point?
So what’s my point? If my point seems like an elaborate, protracted assault on the underlying principles behind a main recurring theme in the movie pi then you better deduct a few more points from my prudence. If however, there seems to be something more to it than that, then I better add some to yours. My point, more broadly, is that, were we to begin to make assumptions about the stock market in any way by making comparisons to things we know or think we know, we better be careful just how we go about it. I liked the movie pi. A lot. The concept of an odd man, a brilliant man, drowning in his own alien world of unbelievable belief that is the promise that knowing the truth about things has something so valuable to offer that he drives himself to the edge while in hot pursuit of that knowledge, offers me a kind of company. Not to mention that the movie wasn’t filmed in color. That was cool.
My point, more specifically, is that, were we to begin to make assumptions about the stock market, we should, instead of looking at the very visible (or the things we know) to determine the things we can barely see (or the things we want to know) we should keep looking at the things we can barely see because whenever we look to the things we can see we risk letting those things impress the forming conclusions we are making about the things we cannot see. If that occurs too much, pretty soon we’re just seeing what we’ve always seen. Now what good is that?
What are the things we can barely see?