Are there any viable applications of quantum mechanics in the stock market?
Recently I read this book: The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable. Hence, I became interested in quantum applications in the stock market. From a theoretical standpoint, it makes sense because both QM and the stock market are probabilistic in nature. In QM, you can get the probability of a particle being in a certain area and in the stock market you can also predict the probability of a stock going up or down. Either way it is impossible to come to a definitive conclusion.
I have a background in optics/photonics and in QM as well as an interest in finance, so this topic naturally became something I wanted to pursue for my research project. But after thinking about it more it just seems very buzz wordy and not something traditionally done. Additionally, the stock market produces very noisy data, and it just seems impossible to do a research project around that chaos. I'm overall just very confused about if/how to make a project around this and what applications even are there. I need to have a physical apparatus for my project anyways so I may just scrap this idea