> But when you're talking about tabular data for finance I guarantee you very few hedge funds are running tree models for trading strategies What do you base t

> But when you're talking about tabular data for finance I guarantee you very few hedge funds are running tree models for trading strategies What do you base this on? Having only neural nets on tabular data is mostly done due to laziness of the creator since neural nets are much easier to use, not because neural nets perform better even with large amounts of data. In general you want both since they are good at finding different kinds of patterns.