A trader explains how to find billion-dollar trading strategies on SSRN, where about 90% of institutional strategies originate. The site hosts academic papers and hedge fund research. Instead of copying them, use the findings as a foundation to build your own rules.
Steal this. Like, steal as much as you can, because 90% of institutional trading strategies are coming from this one place. The place is the Social Science Research Network. It's like this giant collection of all this research where anyone can just go dig and try to find something interesting. And in particular, like, there are 2 types of research. There is academic research, and the industry, which might be hedge fund managers or traders conduct some specific research around trading strategies, and they publish them online. You can understand What is this research about? What are the findings? Why is it supposed to make money? You don't copy the research one-to-one, but it is an extremely important starting point to define your trading strategy's rules. And if you keep digging, you find gold.
