Predictive Analytics

Rows and rows of numbers. A meta-layer above them in the form of an algorithm. It'll digest those numbers and try to find patterns. Take out all the numbers related to political postings, then take out all the numbers related to oil prices, then take out all the numbers related to the stage play version of Grease. And maybe then there's a pattern that, um, means something to investors? Maybe.

That's the gist, anyway...or the hope. Predictive analytics work in Black Box Investing...until they don't.