ABSTRACT
When we think of predicting the future we are likely to think of an old gypsy crone in a screened cubicle at the back of a vacant store. She draws the curtains, decorated with signs of the zodiac, and reads our palm. Others do it with tea leaves, or by the bumps on your head; some use horoscopes or examine the entrails of pigeons (which, incidentally, is called haruspication). For we all have to predict, and there is no limit on what can be used as a predictive method. I could decide to buy stocks when it rains and sell them when the sun shines. I could go long when the Yankees win, and short when they lose. So far as I know, none of the above methods of predicting has any positive value, but you are free to try them, or others.
