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I'll repeat what I've said before about these platforms - I don't see why any institutional money would ever flow to them. Most startup funds require at least 5
by inthewoods 9y ago
I'll repeat what I've said before about these platforms - I don't see why any institutional money would ever flow to them. Most startup funds require at least 5 years of audited history before any capital allocator will touch them. They might get some small quick money from fund-of-funds, but I think they'll be hard-pressed to keep it. Given the relative short history on these platforms and the likely churn in algos, I can't see anyone putting serious money into them.
One of the other problems I see with these platforms is that there is nothing that stops me, as far as I can tell, from pulling my algo from that platform once it is successful. Now there are lots of reasons why I could see people not doing that (running your own fund is hard, raising capital is difficult), but I don't see why anyone that is successful wouldn't immediately exit the platform in order to maximize their return.
- jzwinck 9y agoAll automated trading technology providers suffer this paradox: failing customers will fail, excellent ones will profit and move on to develop their own platforms. It's unavoidable. You must continually attract new customers and hope some are successful for your own reputation.
- Houshalter 9y agoFor numer.ai you can't leave. The data you get is private and encrypted. So even if you come up with a great algo, you depend on them to do anything with it.
- klipt 9y agoUnless some other fund buys the same expensive data?