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As we’ve seen this week, technology and strategy have combined to give the power of hedge fund managers to self-directed investors. Automated Trading can give investors continual access to the market; trend following offers an easy-to-maintain strategy.

Hedge fund managers, though, have access to so many more markets, right? They can trade more than just stocks and bonds.

Now, thanks to aggressive online brokers who are eager to expand their offerings, individual investors now can trade all types of assets. It’s pretty safe to say that if a hedge fund can trade it, so can you.

This gives you another took of a hedge fund manager: diversification.

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Hedge fund managers have one advantage over individual traders: they’re paid to trade. That’s not always the case for most traders, who have jobs (often full-time) to bring in money for their day-to-day living expenses, as well as save money for their trading activities.

With all that time, hedge fund managers can research and monitor the market. With all that money, they can hire people to research and monitor the market for them, while they play a few rounds of golf and shop for art.

For the individual trader, things are different. Many strategies that suit their lifestyle, won’t fit their dreams. Buy-and-hold is too slow and day-trading (without the ability to constantly manage the trades) can be too risky.

However, individual traders can use trend following strategies to compensate and compete with hedge fund managers.

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