On the Nature of Markets
Markets are weather systems. They form over oceans of human decision-making, gather force through the thermodynamics of expectation and fear, and break upon shores that no cartographer has mapped. To observe a market is to observe a living atmosphere -- visible in its effects, invisible in its causes, predictable only in its tendency toward surprise.
We at sora.markets take the long view. Our vantage point is the sky -- not the trading floor but the atmospheric layer above it, where patterns resolve that are invisible to those caught in the turbulence below. From here, a flash crash looks like a squall line forming. A bull run looks like a pressure system building. A correction looks like the inevitable arrival of autumn.
"The market does not care about your model. It cares about the weather, and the weather is always changing."
Our methodology is deliberately anachronistic. We believe that the tools of careful observation -- patient attention, historical memory, the discipline of writing down what you see before you decide what it means -- have been undervalued in an age of algorithmic trading. A human being watching a market for thirty years develops an intuition that no machine learning model can replicate, because the human has skin in the game of time.