The Grant Williams Podcast · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Mike Green explained that his new firm, Tier One Alpha, uses a 'high-resolution camera' approach to analyze market behavior. This involves capturing data from over 3,500 ETFs, mutual funds, target date funds, corporate share buybacks, and insider transactions to understand how these flows impact individual securities. The goal is to predict crowd responses to liquidity events.
“What we are capturing is all the information from where now just over about 3,500 ETFs. And also mutual funds, and also target date funds, and also corporate share buybacks have now entered our database.”
“The information you want is, are they facing the water cannon head on? Are they on one foot or two foot? Do they have how much do they weigh? Do they have a background in NCAA football?”