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How difficult is it to get investors when you can show your model beats the market consistently?

Of course, they have to check your not trading a strategy with extreme tail risk, but here it sounds like that's not the case?

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Very, because historically a levered long position in the market beats the market consistently over long periods. Beating the market turns out not to be a very interesting metric to sophisticated investors.

It's difficult. We made a lot of pitches. Investors/allocators require a fairly long track record and are extremely reluctant to fund (what they perceive to be) black box strategies.

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