computational biology ??

vesel · November 10th, 2005, 2:52 pm

first time ive heard of this....seems to work though...266%pa.If anyone can explain how the spatial dynamics of worms and flys relate to trading profit id be intrigued to hear.http://www.proteomcapital.com/http://ww ... g%2004.pdf

commoditytrader · November 10th, 2005, 3:33 pm

Amazing!!Do you know how much money they've raised??

vesel · November 10th, 2005, 3:42 pm

No idea. But judging from one of their sample portfolio reports should be at least $50m. They also seem to be rolling out new funds - fixed inc and property(!); so i'd guess the cash is pouring in.

sizzla · November 10th, 2005, 3:46 pm

Don't get carried away - search the forums and google for article on Caissa (jonathan kinlay's former hedge fund) - and make sure you look at the actual results vs pro forma and back-test..... the F1000 fund you are talking about (+266.20%) looks like the one of the old Caissa funds.....

PinballWizard · November 12th, 2005, 12:30 am

5 seconds on their home-page and I feel nausea. They may use some biologically-inspired algorithm at some stage of their process (e.g. GA, neural-net, or other soft-computing approach), which may happen to run on a cluster of PC's. However, I highly doubt any of this defines either their performance or investing style. It's just a load of name-droping, flash, smoke & mirrors. Way overdone. Very low signal-to-noise ratio.Sigh.