This Matter of the Matrix: A Traders Guide to the Galaxy

By Michael Cillo

There is this continuum of things we call the universe, an entity stitched together with an intelligence of it`s own. It is this observation of "the things" that can lead us to believe that all we see is all there is, but this is not so.    Those thousand points of light dashed across the broad palate of the night sky are more than just stars, they are virtual bread crumbs coded and with a purpose. A beautiful mind that calls us to follow and query, once and only if we are ready to unravel a new paradigm. This Matter of the Matrix invites you to join us for unique look into this very different reality, one who`s subplot dictates our financial market. The completely mathematical construct of our markets is mirrored in a mathematical model of our universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hillcrest Media Group
• Release date: Apr 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781635050103

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Introduction

In a filmed onstage interview of invited physicists at the tenth annual Isaac Asimov Memorial panel debate, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson asks questions of his guests that pertain to the theory of everything and in particular String Theory. One of the panelists is Dr. James Gates Jr., professor of physics at the University of Maryland.

In Dr. Gates’s attempt to enunciate the graphical representation of the expanding universe, he adds that deeply embedded in the equations of these graphs, he has found a computer code. More specifically, some of the same computer code that we use in our Internet browsers. Upon hearing this, Dr. Tyson, as moderator of the panel, asks everyone to wait and allow him to be silent for a moment. With a regained mental composure, he proceeds with his questions for Gates.

Dr. Tyson: As you dig deeper, you find computer code written in the fabric of the cosmos?

Dr. Gates: Into the equations we want to use to describe the cosmos, yes.

Dr. Tyson: Computer code?

Dr. Gates: Computer code, strings of bits and ones and zeros.

Dr. Tyson: It’s not just it resembles computer code, you’re saying it is computer code?

Dr. Gates: It’s not even just is computer code, it’s a special kind of computer code that was invented by a person named Claude Shannon in the 1940s. That’s what we find buried very deeply inside the equations that occur in String Theory and in general systems that we say are Supersymmetric.

(uncomfortable pause with Dr. Tyson and the audience)

Dr. Tyson: Time to go home, right? Where are we going to go after . . . so, so are you saying we are all just—there is some entity that programs the universe and that we’re just expressions of their code?

Just in the nick of time, one of the other four panelists voices his dissenting view. Tyson uses the opportunity, literally running to him with the microphone, and begs for this small brushfire to be extinguished as if he were standing in a pine forest on a dry and breezy day. It is pretty much a microcosm that I wish I could carry around in two upward palms and show people—a small, snowy sphere and society within it and how it reacts when shaken. People running around outside with their heads up and their tongues sticking out. They are yelling an undistinguishable word (blasphemy, I think) while delicately trying to preserve the feathery gifts from heaven from being consumed.

When people metaphorically say something is heavy, we know that to be a burden on one’s mind, a thought or idea that is going to require much contemplation. Jim Gates’s findings have that feel. Not to make anyone feel worse, but we have found somewhat similar coded findings out in the universe, or at least in our neighborhood of such. Ours takes its inputs from the stock and commodity markets in the form of data (numbers that represent us). There is an undeniable interest between our universe and humans. My disclaimer for now is that I don’t know why this is and I’m just the messenger. We’ve come to find that the market data will spill its guts if you torture the truth out it. I won’t suggest that Dr. Gates’s findings have the same gravity as ours, but then out in space, who’s counting that heaviness? We have something interesting to share, and it plays along with that Twilight Zone tune in the background that held our audience captive. Gates’s findings are as much imprinted in my mind as the indelible voice of Rod Serling, preparing us for that middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

We have an advantage in that our graphs and findings have a more immediate use and the implication of profit in trading the markets. Not to cheapen our study, but there is the concession that there won’t be lines at a bookstore for the study of Supersymmetry. There is, however, Saturday morning infomercial enthusiasm, keen on creating wealth. Concentric with this pursuit are the trading systems themselves, which will take you from rags to riches in no time at all. You will spill your coffee racing to grab that pen and paper.

There is a story inside the story of market analysis, and I assure you the second story is not fiction.

In the world of trading, and the analysis thereof, there is a term that gets bandied about: the Holy Grail. It is this somewhat mythical and ultimate tool of analysis that would give the holder of this embodied enlightenment an all-powerful means to take money from the market. Those imbued with its secrets can begin to practice rubbing their hands together accompanied by an evil laugh in their quest to own the world.

I’ve never liked the term in as much as it’s often used sarcastically to describe others work/efforts by those whose own analysis is (a) nonexistent, (b) quite banal and not very profitable, or (c) lacks a basis to go along with mere numbers and calculations. I suppose (c) does not matter so much in the real world, as long as you are getting results on the right side of the ledger. However, there is a professional envy cast when anyone attempts to better explain markets and their gyrations. A further supposition is this is true in all facets of our lives and professions. People in general resist change or new or different ideas. In other words, Who the hell do you think you are? We invite those blessed with the virtue of patience to meet the baby grail, or at least its image as it builds. And no need for unpleasantness; we are not in the game, nor do we wish to compete.

Major reversals in our markets are dictated by mathematical perfections reflected back from space, ergo, we are dictated by precise positioning in space. Once we accept that the universe operates with numbers and measurements different from those here on Earth, the solutions become quite simple. Mathematics don’t exist in our world, we exist in theirs and we always have. We’ve been innocently delusional in our thinking that market movements are based on fundamental news and information. Quite handily we have something called price charts that happen to be the perfect medium for unveiling this phenomenon. We intend to show that the graphic charts traders use every day are in fact littered with an unseen code. There’s a mathematical message behind the computer screen and, if I’m right, perhaps more than one message to be pondered. An annoying by-product of this study is that one can become able to pinpoint market reversals that could lead to increased wealth, whether you develop your own relationships or we offer our formulas at some later date.

We’re not here to turn Wall Street. on its head; that’s just not going to happen. They are a by-product of being too big and well entrenched. The columns of our Federalist banks are soldered with the greed that is human nature. We are not here to bash anyone on Wall Street unless they try to bully us in the small alleyway on our way to making a point. We are, however, passing a memo around to the various firms and their offices. It’s from the almighty, and he’d like to have a word with you.

Wall Street’s concept of the Holy Grail is given chase in the following pages. You as the reader get to decide how much different our grail concept is from any other reference. The danger, the allure, and the basis of markets and their profits are intriguing. We plan to offer something in addition, which at the very least will hopefully generate a modem within that gives rise to a deeper reflection—the one we all have after the end of the day, staring at the wall and rattling our ice cubes. If your time spent wondering ever includes the self-submission that there has to be more to all this, then you’ve wondered correctly. There is more, and we’ve shaped our thoughts onto paper to share in the following pages.

If it is true that everyone wants something, then I plan to be up front right now with what I’m after. A connection. One that hopes readers (in their pursuit of profit) are reachable in a new and esoteric sort of way. Something that says we exist beyond the given five senses. Something that says material wealth is but a small, gratuitous part of the bigger picture, and by small, I mean immaterial, really.

There is an interesting dynamic to the ego-driven pursuit of wealth. When asked, people (usually men) will confide that they chose this investment/stock trade profession for the wealth, for the material things, but ultimately it became for the woman of their dreams, for the recognition and a beautiful life of love and happiness. We know who we are.

It would be an amazing thing if we could loop the contents of this wholehearted effort into a profound meaning, and I think we can. We don’t claim all the answers, but one answer I have found is that your answers must come from within, and that includes the journey to arrive at said answer. We are putting the galaxy on notice. We have cracked some of its code and found some wonderfully strange programming, of which we may be the authors. We peel away the materialistic shells and the discolored keys to the art of gain, and there it lays, a new geometric paradigm to consider. My best wish is for the reader to absorb this book and others mentioned in it so that they may come away with an understanding of our home, and by home I mean comfort away from the mad rush and the unattractive things we do for money and power.

Ubiquitous Numbers

In the 1987 movie Wall Street, Oliver Stone has created a quasi-reality for our viewing pleasure—a testament to the greed and excess of the financial world and in fact our own culture. If you hadn’t noticed, you may have seen a partial reflection of yourself glancing off the television screen when the sun hits it just right. The not-so-fictional character of Gordon Gekko was created with an expected intention in mind—that we might see ourselves in him and be so disenchanted with the systematic murder of ethics in the acquisition of more money that we would reestablish our own personal values, hopefully for the betterment of humanity. As life would have it, nothing like that ever happened. The movie, in large part, created a generational bull-rush of young Turks all hell-bent on being the next ruthless Wall Street icon who destroys and carpetbags his or her way to fame and riches. Modern-day pirate figures whose accessories were being sold separately to those wishing to emulate them. Youngsters who were weaned on the peace and love movement fifteen years earlier were now champing at the bit to wear spiky hair, skinny ties and make tons of money while talking on a cell phone the size of a small lunch box. We had created game on. Atlas shrugged and Superman let out a solemn breath of resignation.

We would like to add something to that story, and we are not thinking sequel here. Instead, another dimension of what seemed so cut-and-dried, so matter-of-fact. Our attempt is to give chase to a story, an investigation to the wonderment of who we are, and perhaps a bump to the Bud Fox in all of us. Just saying the name is like spitting a bug out of your mouth, while Gordon Gekko just sails out of your mouth like Team Oracle. Established perception and dogma is what we want you to fight through. Float outside the box with us for a few hours and see what we have in store. Get comfortable with your imagination while we discuss two very different types of materialism, one associated with the love of personal possessions, and the other venerated and argued by Plato and Democratis many centuries ago. Lastly, we include a love affair with the bodies of space. The next last great frontier (of very deep space) may in fact be in our minds. On the very intriguing level of cosmology and physics, they may be one in the same.

Let us start with a supposition that not everything is as it seems in our world. Elevate this idea even further, and we could say nothing is as it seems. Whether pondering astronomical theories or predictive models for market changes, or even human nature, we will be forced at some point to introduce that ever-unpopular idea of mathematics. It will never be a good conversation starter and it is not likely to fly well in any social outing, yet it will be sorely needed to help ply and understand the conundrums we will present. We plan to meld astronomy, markets, and human nature (subjective), glued together mathematically. We will be less about calculations but more about correlations, leaving individual readers free to decide what they accept and what they may disregard. What seems plausible and what may be too much to swallow. In life, and as we grow older, we acquire insight to the tendencies and idiosyncrasies of the masses here on Earth. In particular, one cannot help but notice our human predisposition to grasp an idea as if hanging off a tall building. Once learned, a person’s marriage to an idea or fundamental belief, for better or worse, is permanently cast in granite. My own opinion is that most people have an innate inflexibility built into their mind-set, a firewall against change, even if it’s merely a minor revision. You as the reader will have to reevaluate what is reality as you see it.

In the beginning would be a tiresome way to start a book, so let me supplant, right before the big bang or the big bounce, depending on which one you believe in, if either, is when this all began. Not for effect, but those terms were a useful simile at one time to build on. Our thoughts led us to believe the concept, and not necessarily the number zero would have been established here 4 billon years ago. A concept of nothingness into something. Secondly we hypothesized that a market reversal would also incorporate the concept of zero (growth, acceleration, etc.) somewhere represented in its chart. Hiding in plain sight were many clues as to what entails the birth of a violent market reversal. And so it became a quest to find a commonality between the two.

Instead of one big bang, the bounce theory describes our universe as birthing, expanding to a point, and then imploding again in a repetitious cycle. I remember it for two reasons: (1) because in fact that had been one of our ideas that had been kicked around, and (2) it did remind us of the Matrix, as in The