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by jasonfarnon 750 days ago
Why not then publish the strategies once outmoded, or are they in fact published? Can I go see somewhere what strategies big funds used in the 90s to make bank, which presumably no longer offer a competitive advantage? The way I can go see what computer exploits/hacks used to work when they were still secret?

Maybe it's just what I know, but I can't help but think the "strategies" are a lot like security exploits--some cleverness, some technical facility, but mainly the result of staring at the system for a really long time and stumbling on things.
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ds_opseeker 750 days ago
> Why not then publish the strategies once outmoded

Because then your competition knows which strategies don't work, and also what types of strategies you work on.

Don't leak information.

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at_a_remove 750 days ago
Why not? Because you won't know what of your strategies is outmoded by something new because that group is not publishing their strategy, which is like yours but on steroids, either.

And then everything regresses to the Dark Forest game theory.

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