“The physicist-run Prediction Company is an example of a company that has apparently extracted unusual profits from the market for over a decade. In contrast, economist-run companies like LTCM and Enron have gone belly-up. Being a physicist certainly doesn’t guarantee success … but if you are going to look for correlations in (market or any other) data then being a physicist might help.”

Joseph L. McCauley, writing in
Dynamics of markets: econophysics and finance