Good points, but commodity futures and stock prices take into account all sorts of information. They go haywire sometimes but given how hard it is to beat the market, they seem to do a pretty good job of aggregating it all.
As we learn from reading Matt Levine, they might also be taking into account signals that are irrelevant to you for technical reasons, or just nonsense. Often it works well but sometimes you get meme stocks.
Which is why I said "they go haywire sometimes." But in most cases, they work well enough that very few professional investors are able to consistently beat the judgement of the market.
skybrian|8 days ago
DennisP|7 days ago