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AI, finance, and the intersection between the two.
I went through hell and back migrating to TimescaleDB. I didn’t last two weeks.
MongoDB vs TimescaleDB Performance: Real Benchmarks from a Trading Platform Google “top 10 databases for time-series d…
October 3, 2025
I tested Mswing, “the one indicator to rule them all”. It didn’t work.
A Cautionary Tale to Doubt What You Read Online I came across this Medium article about a technical indicator dubbed Ms…
August 16, 2025
How I used this well-known technical indicator to beat the market by more than 100%
How to use the Simple Moving Average to Outperform the Market I saw a "TikTok guru" make an outrageous claim. And it tur…
August 15, 2025
GPT-5 Mini is the BEST AI Model for Complex Reasoning Tasks
GPT-5 may have disappointed. But its "mini" model punches above its weight class Like the entire world, I too was disap…
August 12, 2025
I Tested Every Major LLM for Algorithmic Trading. There is One Clear Winner
It’s not Gemini Pro or GPT-5. It’s something else entirely I make a lot of money in the stock market. Press enter or cl…
August 11, 2025
I tried my best to like GPT-5. I just can't. It fucking sucks.
OpenAI lied to us, over-promised, and (severely) under-delivered I had very high hopes for GPT-5. In my defense, they…
August 10, 2025
OpenAI just released GPT-oss, its first open-source model since GPT-2. Is it as good as they say?
OpenAI did something that even Raven Baxter couldn’t predict… They returned to their open-source roots. Today, OpenAI…
August 6, 2025
Last year, I used GPT o1 to create a trading strategy. It is the WORST strategy I’ve ever seen
No Exaggeration. This strategy did worse than penny stocks! Ten months ago, OpenAI shocked the world with their O1 mode…
July 12, 2025
I tested every AI Model on a complex SQL Query Generation Task. Here’s where Grok 4 stands
I spent $200 to test every language model. Here’s the best. Grok 4 dominated the benchmarks at its unveiling yesterday.…
July 11, 2025