I’ve been asked by my esteemed colleague @goodalexander to write a thread on recent industry trends within Quant Trading. My background is mostly within the mid-frequency space, so I’m likely to miss hugely obvious points to those in parallel industries. Apologies: 🧵

The easiest way for a fund manager to improve their performance is not by finding outright alpha (the space is too competitive now), but rather, it’s the ability to use existing knowledge in new spaces.

New spaces can mean newer asset classes, or different timeframes, resulting in two independent but closely related paths with relatively less competition: these paths have driven trends in recent years.