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Loose lips sink ships, right? Yeah, this is why hedge funds keep secrets, and sell side analysis isn't very trustworthy in the investment world. If their info
by blobbers 3y ago
Loose lips sink ships, right?
Yeah, this is why hedge funds keep secrets, and sell side analysis isn't very trustworthy in the investment world. If their info was so good, they would act on it instead of publishing it.*
* some people act on it, then publish it in order to push prices in their favor.
- Scene_Cast2 3y agoThis is exactly why I don't understand the strategy behind sites like https://www.quiverquant.com/ https://www.quiverquant.com/ My optimistic theory is that it might be a form of social activism to enact change, as opposed to a plain carrot problem.
- blobbers 3y agoNo, they have a premium paid subscription. They're doing it to make money.
- winwang 3y agoIt's even worse in the case of hedge funds (well, arbitrage in general), because any given strategy has a maximum amount of profit it could make before the market loses that specific inefficiency. Or at least, that's the theory. It's basically like finding a gold mine and telling everyone to come over and take what they want from it.