On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

[drgo]

Famously Norwegian cows “picking” stocks by shitting in marked grid did as well as professional stock brokers and much better than astrologers!

[hobo123 → drgo]

Love this. Stay hungry, stay bullish. :D

[shoo → drgo]

there's also the (apocryphal?) tale about a brokerage investigating which of their clients' stock portfolios had the best performance, and discovering the best performing portfolios belonged to the clients who were dead.

https://www.morningstar.com/columns/rekenthaler-report/archi...

[pampas → drgo]

But is that before or after fees? Does each fund manager take more or less than the cow's dollar equivalent in pasture?

[drgo → pampas]

before fees and milk