I work on alternative data in the hedge fund industry. We're not quants -- we don't try to predict the stock market... instead, we try to forecast how individual companies are performing using aggregated clickstream, point-of-sale, and payments data. It's a data cleaning, timeseries, and modeling problem with a lot of domain knowledge necessary. LLMs can be helpful (Ie. for example, entity resolution for data cleanin…
If i may ask, who are your clients? The investors or the companies themselves?
This seems like a fun(i mean enjoyable) domain.
Also, again, if i may ask, what is your field of study? Is it related to finance or statistics?