>A lot of people think of this in too much of a binary fashion. Hunches vs Quant.
It's really more of a continuum.
People say the same thing about fundamental analysis versus technical. It's not a binary; everyone is both, and only vary on how much they lean to one side.
It’s the same except that your avg tech/fund. analyst isn’t sitting on 10gb private fiber global data networks.
Hunches and quants tend to work when you have that much data and compute firepower.
Setup is closest akin to what insurance and social media companies run. When you have that data and speed, you’ll do well. Secret isn’t the IP, it’s having access to the infra that can make use of it.
Siren Servers/Jaron Lannier describes it in generalities well.
People say the same thing about fundamental analysis versus technical. It's not a binary; everyone is both, and only vary on how much they lean to one side.