
Ep. 905: Zuckerman, Gray and Holiday with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The History of Technical Analysis
Until around 2000 maybe, a little bit before maybe after, you could actually see them as cousins of technical traders. That was early on or that was till 2000 or so. And then they started collecting other kinds of data, everything from the stuff that we call today alternative data. Now you can look at them as sort of an early version of machine learning. They just, no Bob Mercer, who played a huge, and it still plays a huge role within the firm, controversial politically. But he talks about there's no data like more data. So they vacuum up. If there's a piece of data you can think of a positive, they bought it before everybody else and they've been
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