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I just don't see the value prop for LLM for financial markets specifically but I guess I'm not familiar with the workflows of analysts.

"Backtest this for me"

"Analyze this"

"Find a pattern"

"Beat the market"

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I'd imagine the main use case is to whitewash insider trading signals ...

Your imagination is pretty bad then

Reading tons of reports, no?

> Reading tons of reports, no?

  Reading != Understanding

Sure. I'm not saying it's a good idea. It was a glaring omission from the provided list.

It is an excellent idea - the first useful LLM most in finance have / will interact with is to throw the 1000's of daily reports into a vector database and query against that.

"Whats the consensus in todays research about AAPL?" Out comes a distilled report with clickable links back to the ai slop Goldmans et al sent out this morning.

> a distilled report with clickable links back to the ai slop Goldmans et al sent out this morning.

A summary with links back to AI slop is a _useful_ outcome? Why?

> Ai slop summary with links back to AI slop is a _useful_ outcome? Why?

Saves the junior from coming in at 4am to spend 3 hours doing it. They can spend more time fixing the slide deck.

Are you being sarcastic, or does finance really involve this much garbage-in/garbage-out?

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