Wall Street’s Smart-Trade Brigade Thrashed Again on Stock Boom

  • Complex products struggle to outperform amid relentless rally
  • Bonds and commodities continue to lag the large-cap indexes

Pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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As a product manufacturer, Wall Street is on a roll.

From yield-bearing option trades to funds packaging bank loans, it’s shaping up to be a bumper year for strategies that purport to bring a professional investing edge to the masses.