IBM new neuromorphic tech, page-41

They could. But that's not their expertise. They are focused on selling IP, royalties for SNAP and AI vision (security) cameras for SpikeNet.

Once they get the IP sold, engineering fees follow and then royalties. They will make more money doing this in 12 months than trading. SpikeNet has the biggest most immediate uptake. If they sign up security companies to sell the security vision, they will have a very large sales force very fast with recurring monthly revenue. I've shown a couple of friends in the security world the demos from SpikeNet and they would love to be a reseller of that technology. So the demand is there. They just need to sack the sales people they have and get some real sales people in there to do the job properly.

With big data, financial markets and trading/investing they will be better off spinning off another company, getting the SNAP/FPGA into servers and teaming up with traders/brokers with a profit sharing arrangement or license agreement linked to the size of the account each month. But to do that they will need to prove it works first in real life and that will months or a couple of years. If you want to own shares in a trading company look at companies like GS, Virtu Financial for example in the USA. Not advice to buy or sell any shares in any company mentioned