Their mathematical models rely on past trading patterns to predict how particular securities will perform in the future if other securities, say, fall in price.

它们的数学模型依赖于过去的交易规律，在其它证券价格变化(例如下跌)时，预测某种证券未来的表现。

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However, instead of finding the link from our past, we will predict it for our future.

然而，我们将预言未来，而不是从过去发现这失去的一环。

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In this fast changing environment we could never predict what the future was going to be, but we were certain of what is was not going to be: like the past.

在这种快速变化的环境里，我们无法预测未来世界是怎么样的，但我们却很明确什么是未来不发生的：那就是过去。

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And then we try and get our simulation to match the past, and hope that that will help it predict the future.

尝试让仿真程序能和这一部分实际数据相符，并且希望它能够帮我们对未来进行预测。

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