How about butter production in Bangladesh? http://nerdsonwallstreet.typepad.com/my_weblog/files/dataminejune_2000.pdf http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time...shi-butter-production-theory-of-asset-prices/
Thanks for posting. While I'm reading that article I'm thinking, hmnnnnn, I wonder if anyone has tried to patent trading software based on any of those ideas.
That's awesome. I'm going to try and overlap "transmission of sexually transmitted diseases" in Manhattan and equity market performance and see the correlation.
"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann