“Indeed, the financial world is such that any insight is almost immediately used to trade for a profit.”

—  Didier Sornette

Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 5, Modeling Financial Bubbles And Market Crashes, p. 136.

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