None of these AI slop startups seem to be run by finance people, they are run by LLM people who don't understand that hedge funds don't just run pattern recognition on candlesticks, and don't appreciate the instability of distributions in financial data.
This xkcd is still true
We built a hedge fund where every single trade is made by AI.
No human portfolio managers.
No manual research.
No one writing trading code.
Just a reasoning model that reads the world, thinks for itself, and trades before humans can.
Early results in testing: 2.55 Sharpe ratio. 2.79 Sortino ratio. Market neutral. $50M capacity.
Here's how we got here 🧵