{"id":68351,"date":"2019-03-10T01:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68351"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:24:10","slug":"hedge-funds-used-this-data-guru-to-make-millions-on-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/hedge-funds-used-this-data-guru-to-make-millions-on-nintendo.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Used This Data Guru to Make Millions on Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge funds will look almost anywhere for an edge. When it comes to trading shares of Nintendo Co., they\u2019re turning to a tiny research shop in a corner of Tokyo better known for used booksellers and guitar stores. Media Create Co. is the brainchild of Atsushi Hosokawa, a 63-year-old who got his start cold-calling video-game stores for information. His firm now tracks sales in Japan and other Asian countries, estimating shipments ahead of official company releases with enough precision that he\u2019s drawn more than two dozen hedge funds as clients. Last year, the company showed shipments of Nintendo\u2019s portable Switch console weren\u2019t growing as quickly as expected, helping make millions for clients who shorted the stock before the game maker cut its shipment target in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-10\/hedge-funds-use-unknown-data-guru-to-make-millions-on-nintendo\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds will look almost anywhere for an edge. When it comes to trading shares of Nintendo Co., they\u2019re turning to a tiny research shop in a corner of Tokyo better known for used booksellers and guitar stores. Media [&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-68351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351","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=68351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68352,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68351\/revisions\/68352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}