A trader claims he generated over €30 million for a bank by mining academic papers on SSRN for trading ideas. He says 90% of institutional strategies come from this source, and the trick is extracting actionable insights from research rather than copying it directly.
I made more than €30 million for the bank, and 90% of institutional trading strategies are coming from this one place, 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. 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 If you keep digging, you find gold.
