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by huffmsa 2242 days ago
Because it's boring and takes a long, unpredictable amount of time to return.

They guy has written 5 books about exactly what he does.

It's not a secret.

Even the Medallion fund doesn't do anything secret, they just win 50.7% of a lot of bets.

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>Even the Medallion fund doesn't do anything secret, they just win 50.7% of a lot of bets.

lol no comparison between the two. Medallion has the strongest NDA in exsitance. After 30 years no one knows anything about it. Taleb writes books because more money in books than his method. Simons will never write a book about his method because his method actually works. It is possible that Taleb has a secret strategy but the method he is selling to the public is not going to make you rich, nor will it generate alpha.

Oh, so taleb is hedging his hedge fund by doing other revenue generating things?

Imagine that