2 comments

  • austinwang115 3 hours ago
    Interesting, biotech stocks have been notoriously hard to predict because their business model revolves around science, and it’s hard to know when the science is right. Depending on the situation, I think sentiment could potentially be a misleading/confounding variable here…
    • observationist 50 minutes ago
      Sentiment is crucial - if you know sentiment is incorrectly oriented, you can capitalize on it. If you know it's correct, you can identify mispricing, and strategize accordingly.
  • worik 1 hour ago
    Why do you think that LLMs would do any better than monkeys throwing darts?

    I am raining on your parade but this is another in a long succession of ways to loose money.

    The publicly available information in markets is priced very efficiently, us computer types do not like that and we like to think that our pattern analysis machines can do better than a room full of traders. They cannot.

    The money to be made in markets is from private information and that is a crime (insider trading), is widespread, and any system like this is fighting it and will loose.

    • dchu17 17 minutes ago
      Our initial goal with this project actually wasn't trying to get an edge in terms of better evaluating information, but rather, we wanted to see if an LLM can perform similarly to a human analyst at a lower latency. The latency for the market to react to catalysts is actually surprisingly high in biotech (at least in some cases) compared to other domains so there may be some edge there.

      Appreciate the comment though! I generally agree with your sentiment!

    • sjkoelle 20 minutes ago
      efficiency is not a given. also this is an eval set - they acknowledge the challenge themselves.

      imho this is v cool