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Don’t Quit Your Day Job Just Yet: DIY Hedge Funds with AI Are Chic, But Here’s the Big Catch

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Everyday traders are using AI like Claude to build DIY hedge funds

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Building an automated, high-frequency trading system used to require a small army. To compete with Wall Street’s elite, you needed expensive institutional data feeds, teams of quantitative researchers, and enough Ph.D.s to fill a Renaissance Technologies recruiting event.

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