# In an in-depth interview, Professor Vasant Dhar discusses robots as investment decision makers

1 Faculty News January 14, 2016 ![O'Reilly Data Show logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032582.jpg?itok=gVy8XAaE)>

Excerpt from [O'Reilly Data Show](http://radar.oreilly.com/2016/01/is-2016-the-year-you-let-robots-manage-your-money.html) -- "One of the things I did was to break up the investment landscape into three different types of holding periods. On the one hand, you have high-frequency trading, and on the other extreme, you have very long-term investing. In high-frequency trading, your holding periods are sort of minutes to a day. In very long-term investing, your holding periods are months to years, that Warren Buffett style of investing. Then there’s sort of a space in the middle, which is the part I find most interesting, where there’s a lot of action, which is sort of days to weeks holding period. … The strategy one uses for these different horizons tends to be very different. In the high-frequency trading space, for example, humans don’t really stand a chance against computers, there’s just so much information."

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