- Trading

Written by Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter.

Which investing group do you belong to?

• Technical

• Value

• Momentum

• Algorithmic Trading

• Day Trading

• Swing Trading

• Follower (Social Media Trading)

• High Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Zero Beta/Pairs Trading

• etc.

I am puzzled why so many investors put barbed wire around their activities. These days, you hear plenty of investors whining about HFT. At other times, people complain about others using different strategies.

I think all of that is a pure waste of time and money. What if you decided to learn more about the other methods? What if you combined the best from every group and came up with something different that is not so easily replicable?

Example: A technician could investigate zero beta charts. Looking at a stock chart that excludes the market could reveal some new insights. How different would charts look from that perspective? Is there something to gain or to learn?

At Bigger Capital, we will use anything worthwhile that can make us money. We are not married to only one way of making money. We investigate and experiment with all these methods. Usually, this is a waste of time. “Occasionally, though,” as Frank Oppenheimer said, “something incredibly wonderful happens.”

What do you think?