What ARK's Trade Alerts Really Mean

16/12/2023 14 min

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ARK Invest trade alerts are often posted on social media as some proof of a bull or bear thesis. They're neither without providing context behind ARK's trades. First, we need to aggregate all of ARK's trade alerts across all their ETFs since there's a great deal of overlap across their positions. The biggest ARK ETF - the ARK Innovation ETF or ARKK - is bigger than all the other five active ETFs combined. That's a good place to start. After aggregating the trades, you can then express them as a percentage of total assets under management (AUM), the percentage for a particular ETF, or (as we prefer) as a percentage of their original position. In this way, we can put ARK's trades into context so they actually mean something. You'll never look at ARK trade alerts the same way after watching this video our crack team of MBAs spent the better half of two evenings putting together when they could have been out somewhere drinking down some bowls of loudmouth soup.