Experimental algorithm trades stocks based on superstition

The Verge writes, You could make investments based on market trends or finely tuned financial data, or you could just leave it all up to Shing Tat Chung and his Superstitious Fund Project — an experimental fund that executes trades based on lunar cycles, numerology, and other superstitions. At the core of the fund is an Automated Trading System affectionately known as Sid the Superstitious Robot. Sid isn't a robot, per se, but a computer program that buys or sells stocks using a superstition-based algorithm (source code available for download here). The bot won't buy any stocks on the 13th of the month,...

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