Simplifying Investment Research

Investment research is expensive, complicated and offers little insight as to what will happen to asset prices today, a week from now or next month. Long white papers and news articles don’t tell us about the ongoing price trends that are critical to understand as a corporate issuer, investor or investment bank. Investment analysis needs to use an additional, cleaner lens.

Trend changes the existing research paradigm by providing investment expertise that is accessible, easily understood and transparent. Our mission is to empower securities issuers, investors and investment banks to better understand their markets and make their greatest investment decisions.

Trend changes the existing research paradigm by providing investment expertise that is accessible, easily understood and transparent. Our mission is to empower securities issuers, investors and investment banks to better understand their markets and make their greatest investment decisions.

Trend Intelligence Cuts A Unique Perspective

Trend covers the most liquid global assets and instruments
Access easy to read trend-following expertise
Remove noise and complexity from your markets
Access daily research through our online portal
Communicate unique trend-following insights to investors

What Is Trend-Following?

Trend-following is not a new concept but still remains under practiced and unknown. First pioneered by early investors in the 19th century like Charles Dow (creator of the Dow Jones Industrial Average) it has more recently been adopted by algorithmic trading desks and outstanding hedge fund managers.

Trend-following uses objective, mathematically derived price-based indicators to determine which direction a market is 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. Instead, the visible trend is invested in until it shows signs of ending.

Trend Intelligence adds its own proprietary data overlays to some of the best trend-following indicators from the world of technical analysis, many of these being established more than half a century ago by now famous mathematicians and investors.

Some famous trend-following investors are:

David Harding

CEO of Winton Capital Management

Martin Lueck

Co-founder and Director of Research at Aspect Capital, UK hedge fund.

Jim Simmons

American mathematician, billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

Paul Tudor Jones

American billionaire hedge fund manager.

Trend-following in the news:

AQR

Trend-Following Why Now? A Macro Perspective

WINTON

What Is Trend-Following?

MAN GROUP

Why Trend-Following?

NASDAQ

Trend-Following Strategy: A Concise Guide

REUTERS

Trend Hedge Funds Come Out Winners In Bond Market Rout

Our White Room

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

Trend-following is a highly objective investment style 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 issuers, banks 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 projected movement of liquid asset prices.

Adrian holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Leicester and an MBA from Bayes Business School, City University of London. He is an accredited Member of Technical Analysts (MSTA) in the UK and a Chartered Financial Technician (CFTe) with the International Federation of Technical Analysts.

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, CFTe

Adrian Dacruz launched Trend in 2024 as a way to offer issuers, banks 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 projected movement of liquid asset 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. He is an accredited Member of Technical Analysts (MSTA) in the UK and a Chartered Financial Technician (CFTe) with the International Federation of Technical Analysts.

Adrian Dacruz, MBA, MSTA, CFTe