Quoting itmeDislikedThanks, CKalee.
The best traders that I know all have an engineering background. Their instinctive and cultivated faith in the principle of natural law equips them to discern the organisational principles behind market behavior.
The markets are like all other phenomena - two dimensional manifestations of three or four dimensional vortices. Fluid Mechanics is able to explain the patterns we see. It takes a very dedicated, well disciplined and creative mind to discover the equations of the market, but it has been done.Ignored
In any case, I have often wondered whether we actually discover, on uncover, an order which is inherent in the natural phenomena we are studying, or whether we impose an order where there is none.
Even if the 'order' we uncover is only illusory, it may still be useful in allowing us to interact with and manipulate those phenomena. The fact that this occurs does not necessarily prove that the order exists outside of the humans who formulate it, in other words it may have no objective reality. The underlying principle in the universe may actually be chaos rather than order but the human mind has difficulty even contemplating that possibility.
I have no answers, but many questions.