Kurt Vonnegut, the late, great (and fairly cynical) fiction writer, actually incorporated a unique stock-picking system in his early book The Sirens of Titan. In the book, a character named Noel Constant builds a huge fortune by investing in stocks that he picks because their ticker symbols match the letters that form words in the Bible. His first investment was a stock called International Nitrate. His last was Sonnyboy Oil, which he chose because “SO” formed the last word of Genesis 1:16. International Nitrate and Sonnyboy Oil don’t exist, of course. IN is the symbol for Intermec, a tech...