Human beings have struggled for decades to beat the market. Could rats do a better job? Three years ago Michael Marcovicl, an Austrian artist, embarked on an experiment to explore how successfully rats could trade the forex markets. Using sonification technology, he set up tickers that would play a piano note for each price movement in a given asset. Eighty rats were trained to press a green "long" button or a red "short" button in response to each sound; if they anticipated the next price movement correctly, they got a treat. After three months the pool was narrowed to four rats - Mr. Lehman, Ms. Kleinwort, Ms. Coutts and Mr. Morgan-who predicted with more than 50 percent aggregate accuracy. Marcovici, 45, originally viewed the experiment as a pure art project. "It was a hoax," he says. But when the results of Rattraders appeared In September in "Art and Economy," a pamphlet published by Berlin's Instrtut fuer Kunst im Kontext, Marcovici started getting calls from investors, including several hedge funds in New York, inquiring about his rats' trading availability. 'These guys are willing to try anything, even the most ridiculous idea," he says of the funds.
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机译：几十年来，人类一直在努力击败市场。老鼠能做得更好吗？三年前，奥地利艺术家Michael Marcovicl进行了一项实验，以探索老鼠如何成功交易外汇市场。他使用超音速技术设置了行情自动收录器，可以针对给定资产中的每个价格变动弹奏钢琴音符。训练了80只大鼠，以响应每种声音按下绿色的“长”按钮或红色的“短”按钮。如果他们正确预期了下一个价格走势，他们将得到治疗。三个月后，该池缩小为四只大鼠-雷曼先生，克莱因沃特女士，库茨女士和摩根先生，他们预测总准确率超过50％。 45岁的Marcovici最初将实验视为纯艺术项目。他说：“这是一个骗局。”但是当Rattraders的结果于9月在柏林的Instrtut fuer Kunst im Kontext出版的小册子“艺术与经济”中出现时，马可维奇开始接到投资者的来电，包括纽约的几家对冲基金，询问他的老鼠的交易情况。他谈到这些资金时说：“这些家伙愿意尝试任何事情，甚至是最荒谬的想法。”
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