What Do Hedge Funds Think of Technical Analysis?

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by SunTrader, Jan 29, 2023.

  1. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    I know. Beat ya to it:-

    Post# 17

    "Yup amazin' how so many ignorantly lump drawing lines and stares at charts, that us sophisticated folks don't use,......."

    So so sophisticated that a high majority of HF's, just like retailers, lewz. But at least they do it in a sophisticated way. :D
     
    #61     Jan 30, 2023
  2. taowave

    taowave

    Im in your camp,but i have no doubt there are a small group of talented individuals who trade "technically" with sound money management and knock the cover off the ball...

     
    #62     Jan 30, 2023
  3. severe dunning-kruger here. For the quants who do utilize technical data (e.g. price, time and sales data, etc.), they can spend weeks/months conducting research (reading a lot of research, testing and sampling data, testing and measuring analysis) before they put a trade on.

    here are snippets of real hedge fund job postings lol:
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    Citadel:
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    Citadel 2:
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    It's cute you say "funnymentals" lol, meanwhile, citadel continues to crush it.
     
    #63     Jan 30, 2023
  4. yes but we're talking about a tiny subset that as a % of population would be no different than the % of monkeys with darts who also beat SPX... :p
     
    #64     Jan 30, 2023
  5. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    And here is a pic grabbed from Point 72 website. What is that? Are those Moving Averages and Trendlines on their Bloomberg? Sacrilege. hehe stop digging. Good night.
    Point 72.png
     
    #65     Jan 30, 2023
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  7. taowave

    taowave

    Yes,Uncle Steve did look at technicals(we covered him) but later found inside info to be far more effective

     
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    #67     Jan 30, 2023
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  8. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    They don't use it for establishing longer term positions?
     
    #68     Jan 30, 2023
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  9. Nope. Always surprised when I hear daytraders who think institutional capital is managed with technicals.
     
    #69     Jan 30, 2023
  10. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    I know they do use it for longer positions. Technicals actually work better on longer time frames anyway.
     
    #70     Jan 30, 2023
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