We Simplify Investment Research

Investment research is expensive, complicated and offers limited insight as to what will happen to asset prices today, a week from now or next month. Lengthy research papers don’t inform us about the practical, ongoing price trends that are so critical for market participants to understand. Investment analysis needs to use an additional, cleaner lens.

Trend Intelligence changes the existing research paradigm by providing quantitative, trend-following investment expertise that is accessible, clean and transparent. We give globally minded corporates, financial institutions and the financial media the keys to better understand price moves in their markets.

Trend Intelligence changes the existing research paradigm by providing quantitative, trend-following investment expertise that is accessible, clean and transparent. We give globally minded corporates, financial institutions and the financial media the keys to better understand price moves in their markets.

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We Create Unique Perspectives

Covering global securities, commodities, FX & indices
Access easy to read quantitative trend-following expertise
Remove noise and complexity from your markets
Access all research through our online client portal
Communicate trend-following insight to investors & clients

Why Trend-Following?

Trend-following is not a new concept but remains under practiced and unstandardized in corporate and financial communities. First pioneered by early investors in the 19th century such as Charles Dow (creator of the Dow Jones Industrial Average) it has since been widely adopted by algorithmic trading desks and quantitative hedge fund managers.

Trend-following is a quantitative financial tool that uses objective, mathematically derived price-based indicators to determine which direction prices in a market are trending over time. A trend-follower captures return by investing in the direction of the price trend, doing so without reading news, studying market fundamentals or using price forecasts.

Trend Intelligence adds its own proprietary data overlays to some of the best trend-following indicators from the world of quantitative finance, many of these being established more than half a century ago by eminent mathematicians and investors. Trend Intelligence also seeks to establish itself as a global standard in trend-following reporting, creating benefits to all those who are concerned with financial markets.

Some well known trend-following investors:

Sir David Harding

A pioneer in quantitative investing, Harding founded hedge funds AHL and Winton

Charles Dow

A founding figure of trend-following and chart analysis, Dow created the famous Dow Jones Index

Jim Simmons

Founder of Renaissance Technologies and blended mathematics, science & investing

Trend-following in the news:

MORNINGSTAR

Managed Futures: What To Know About This Strategy

FINANCIAL TIMES

Quant Hedge Funds Enjoy Bumper Start To 2024

MARKETWATCH

Trend-Following Hedge Funds Are Off To A Strong Start

BLOOMBERG

Trend-Chasing Quants Roar Back

REUTERS

Trend Hedge Funds Come Out Winners

GRAHAM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Trend-Following Primer

MAN GROUP

Why Trend-Following?

AQR

Trend-Following: Why Now?

WINTON

What Is Trend-Following?

AQR

A Century Of Evidence On Trend-Following

Global Users Across Industries

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

CORPORATES

FINANCIAL MEDIA

· CITIGROUP

· T ROWE PRICE

· LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

 

· NIKE

· ACCENTURE

· UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

· CNBC

· DOW JONES

· BLOOMBERG

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

· CITIGROUP

· T ROWE PRICE

· LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

CORPORATES

· NIKE

· ACCENTURE

· UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

FINANCIAL MEDIA

· CNBC

· DOW JONES

· BLOOMBERG

Our White Room

All of Trend’s research process takes place in our White Room – a purposeful white space that cuts out the noise of news, earnings, shareholder meetings, corporate actions, economic releases and more.

Trend-following is an objective analysis that we undertake without any outside influence or contamination from human bias. Our clients can have confidence in accessing the most accurate trend-following insights throughout our platform.

Trend’s Founder

Adrian Dacruz launched Trend in 2024 as a way to offer global corporations, financial institutions and investors access to shorter, simplified and noiseless trend-following research. Produced in Trend’s ‘White Room’ the research deliberately avoids contamination from fundamental factors, economics and news. The value to the capital markets is a clear and untainted perspective on the future movement of securities and index prices.

Adrian holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Leicester and an MBA from Bayes Business School, City University of London. Adrian holds additional certifications from Said Business School, University of Oxford in Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Technology. Adrian is also an accredited Member of Technical Analysts (MSTA) in the UK.

Adrian began his career in 2008 in the City of London initially starting out as a market data analyst at Bloomberg LP, later moving into derivatives markets at investment bank UBS and then as a relationship manager at The Bank of New York Mellon and State Street for some of Europe’s best known hedge funds. More recently Adrian has worked within primary capital markets at S&P Global and at Deutsche Boerse Group, owner of the Frankfurt stock exchange and Eurex derivates exchange.

Adrian Dacruz, MBA, MSTA

Adrian Dacruz launched Trend in 2024 as a way to offer global corporations, financial institutions and investors access to shorter, simplified and noiseless trend-following research. Produced in Trend’s ‘White Room’ the research deliberately avoids contamination from fundamental factors, economics and news. The value to the capital markets is a clear and untainted perspective on the future movement of securities and index prices.

Adrian began his career in 2008 in the City of London initially starting out as a market data analyst at Bloomberg LP, later moving into derivatives markets at investment bank UBS and then as a relationship manager at The Bank of New York Mellon and State Street for some of Europe’s best known Hedge Funds. More recently Adrian has worked within primary capital markets at S&P Global and at Deutsche Boerse Group, owner of the Frankfurt stock exchange and Eurex derivates exchange.

Adrian holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Leicester and an MBA from Bayes Business School, City University of London. Adrian holds additional certifications from Said Business School, University of Oxford in Algorithmic Trading, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Technology. Adrian is also an accredited Member of Technical Analysts (MSTA) in the UK.

Adrian Dacruz, MBA, MSTA