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basic_tools:random_walk [2018/04/08 17:10]
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basic_tools:random_walk [2020/04/02 18:12] (current)
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 +Imagine a man coming out of a bar in cancun, an open bottle of sunscreen dribbling from his back pocket. He walks forward for a few steps, and then there’s a good chance that he will stumble in one direction or another.
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 +Now put that guy on a big canvas with an X and Y dimension. ​ The line his sunscreen drippings will make is a random walk.
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 +The math behind that chaotic process is pretty useful in all kinds of domains, option trading being one in particular.
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 +"How do we model this stock"
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 +"​Imagine it's running around like a drunk guy in Cancun"​
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 +"​Cool"​
  
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-Random walks are essential to understand Brownian motion, to model stock movements in finance and to understand the [[theories:path_integral_quantum_mechanics|path integral]] of quantum theories.+Random walks are essential to understand Brownian motion, to model stock movements in finance and to understand the [[theories:quantum_mechanics:​path_integral|path integral]] of quantum theories.
  
  
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