{"id":59518,"date":"2017-08-17T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59518"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T12:34:03","slug":"computer-error-top-trend-following-hedge-funds-lose-out-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/computer-error-top-trend-following-hedge-funds-lose-out-in-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer Error? Top Trend Following Hedge Funds Lose Out In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Big computer-driven hedge funds such as AQR Capital Management, Aspect Capital and Two Sigma lost money in the first seven months of 2017, with human stock-pickers making better returns.   The average hedge fund made 4.8 percent from the start of the year to July 31, Hedge Fund Research data shows, but a lack of market direction, June&#8217;s sharp reversal and low volatility has made trading more difficult for automated funds.   &#8220;Trend-followers are looking for long, drawn-out, directional moves and look to ride that trend as long as possible,&#8221; Tom Wrobel, Director of Alternative Investments Consulting at Societe Generale, said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-performance-idUKKCN1AV1KA\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Big computer-driven hedge funds such as AQR Capital Management, Aspect Capital and Two Sigma lost money in the first seven months of 2017, with human stock-pickers making better returns. The average hedge fund made 4.8 percent from the start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59519,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59518\/revisions\/59519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}