On October 28, 1943, aboard the USS Eldritch, the "possibility" of a test involving a cloaking device—or the "disappearance" of a warship—or, according to some, an instance of time travel (??), took many scientists by surprise.
Others interpreted the event as a case of teleportation. Regardless, if people were somehow able to travel through time, what would be the likelihood of manipulating outcomes to alter the future?
From a physics perspective—according to the most widely accepted theory—the challenge isn't just traveling back in time, but overcoming "temporal inertia." For instance, if someone were to travel back in time to kill their own grandfather, they technically would never have been born; therefore, they could not have traveled back to commit the act. Consequently, through a balancing of forces, events would unfold in such a way as to thwart any action that interferes with the timeline.
In this view, events that have already occurred in the past cannot be changed.
This offers a lesson for the world of cryptocurrencies and day trading: is it truly possible to predict the future based on past data? According to this theory, the very act of looking into the future alters behavior in the present—and once that "present" becomes the "past," it inevitably changes any subsequent prediction about the future.
Indeed, how many people do you know who have become wealthy by consistently making accurate predictions?
It is worth noting that, to date, no predictive formula has proven entirely reliable. Typically, when a prediction turns out to be correct, it is credited to the formula; when it fails, it is attributed to market instability.
This leaves us with a question to ponder: if the USS Eldritch did travel through time, did it alter the places it passed through? If a grandson were to kill his grandfather, would we even be able to know enough about the grandfather to confirm he ever existed?
And if mathematical formulas worked consistently—logically speaking—shouldn't everyone become wealthy? But if everyone were wealthy, wouldn't they simply become the new "poor"?
In other words: if everyone is special, then no one is special.
Therefore—setting aside predictions or the passive waiting for market upturns (bull) or downturns (bear), given that one can never truly identify the peak or the bottom—wouldn't it be wiser to stop "guessing" or making projections in a market designed so that a few make money while the many lose even more?
Ultimately, isn't J.P. Morgan’s simple concept—sell high, buy low—the most appropriate approach after all?
Because, beyond this basic rule, isn't everything else just like an oracle speaking to us about time travel and the teleportation of monetary mass from one place to another?
