{"id":269281,"date":"2025-12-09T00:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/build-your-own-trading-strategy-ivy-league-quant\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:16:06","slug":"build-your-own-trading-strategy-ivy-league-quant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/build-your-own-trading-strategy-ivy-league-quant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Build Your Own Trading Strategy&#8221; \u2014 Ivy League Quant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIEwVmJJ06s?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1&#038;hl=en\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>CREATING your own trading strategies is the only way to outperform (i.e. generate alpha). Quantitative trading firms implement stringent privacy protocols to prevent information leakage and preserve their edges, but TJR and other daytrading influencers have millions convinced that their YouTube strategies actually outperform. The entire retail day trading space approaches trading incorrectly on a fundamental level; people see \u2018choosing a guru\u2019 as the first step in the process of building an edge, completely oblivious to the fact that any edge made public is obsolete, or hurdling towards obsolescence in a hurry. It hurts that this is not accepted as an axiom in the social media trading space when alpha decay is so thoroughly researched in the financial literature. 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