Did the name Jim Simons go into one ear, and out the other? Now you think you're smarter than the 16 billion dollar man? He's clearly stated in interviews (proving you wrong) that his fund discovered, through research, more than a handful of non-random price anomalies. Why are you arguing with success?
Leave him, he is a typical ET guru. Bit by bit the majority of the postings on ET start to become hilarious. If I want to laugh I don't need ET, I can find better entertainment elsewhere. Real interesting postings regarding trading become a rarity.
Price anomalies are known by many many market participants but few succeed. The ones that do are the ones that utilize Prudent Risk Management. There is no other edge. All avenues of price entry and exit discovery are known and in use by the vast majority of players . There is no edge there.
Ask a losing trader ( the more than 95%) and you will find that they all picked price well, but stayed in positions too long on the wrong side and pulled profits too soon on the right side. The edge in trading is trade management, not picking entries and exits.
I beg to differ, and have mathematically proven that my entries have the capability to front run conventional/slower tactics.
There are plenty of set ups that often play out the same, year after year, decade after decade. The market is like a huge train - it takes a long time for all the participants to get in after a counter trend swing. Swing traders have a great advantage over the crowd working a 9-5 job, able to get in hours, days, and even weeks earlier into a profitable trade long before the crowd shows up.