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Oxygen, from Sushil Kedia

January 2, 2008 |

Oxygen MaskBreathing brings in the much needed oxygen for helping unlock energy from food. However, oxygenation also is the process which brings in fatigue, aging and breakdown of tissue. Rejuvenation therapies, food supplements, etc., are in vogue for helping de-oxygenate.

There is a belief in certain segments of Hindu spirituality (it's claimed in the Vedas, which are mainly ancient sciences interpreted in different ways during different times and incorrectly included within the spiritual literature) that each living entity comes into existence with a fixed number of breaths to determine its life. This one line has been eating my mind away for years to figure out how each system and its configuration has its internal sense of time as opposed to the commonly defined sense of time as measured by the movements of the Earth and the Sun.

Extending this further, the whole idea of Pranayam (the yogic practice of modulating breathing) is to be able to pace oxygenation such that enough and just enough oxygen should be available to the system but not excess, helping enhance longevity.

Now within markets if oxygen is an epithet for cash and/or cash equivalents that enable risk-taking, one wonders:

1) What pace of cash inflow into a trading state is optimal for maintaining that state? Extend this into a larger generalization, what pace of change of an independent variable is optimal for the maintenance of the relationship that the dependent has with it and what triggers an impairment of the relationship, or cycle changes?

2) What, if any, is the internal time sense of each contract's price behavior? If time measurement is limited in our minds to the delay between completion of a particular event that its repetitive then is a repetitive measure of volatility behaviour the direction to explore for figuring out the internal time of prices? If not, what else is a better characteristic to examine the internal sense of time of a market/contract ?

3) Companies, securities and instruments that have vanished due to business failures, takeovers, mergers, spin-offs, changed regulations, etc., leave another rankling question: Is there anything measurable common to such extinctions and if there, one can those measurable variables provide decisions for predicting such extinction in advance for other existing entities?


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