Start Your Hedge Fund With Trend Following
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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