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How To Break The Stock Market

In 2012 a cat picked stocks by throwing a toy mouse at a grid, and beat a team of professional investors. That should be impossible. So why does it keep happening, and is there any way to actually beat the stock market?

To find out, we go from a French student in 1900 watching a speck of pollen jiggle, to an ox at a country fair, to 215 orangutans flipping coins, the Super Bowl indicator, Jim Simons and the Medallion Fund, George Soros breaking the Bank of England, Warren Buffett's million-dollar bet, a $300 million trench dug to shave milliseconds, Knight Capital losing $460 million in 45…

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