One possibility is that it’s analogous to the “whales don’t get cancer because their tumors get tumors”: a better systematic strategy generates its highest returns by trading against a similar but slightly worse one.https://twitter.com/AlexanderGerko/status/1391330207894736901 …
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In discretionary trading, this happens with new datasets: highest absolute returns are made using the data, highest sharpe (with lower capacity) made by betting against people who are misreading the data.
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Or to put it in the less fancy words of Goldman’s leading CDS trader when I was there: always be on the other side of the pain trade.
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