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I Launched Automated AI Stock Trading Agents 5 Days Ago. Here’s What I Learned.
I Launched Automated AI Stock Trading Agents 5 Days Ago. Here’s What I Learned.Lessons From Creating a Free No-Code AI A…
October 12, 2025
How to backtest hundreds of strategies in 15 seconds or less using AI Agents
A shortcut for finding the best trading strategies Imagine you had an idea for a trading strategy. It can be dumb simpl…
October 6, 2025
I accidentally increased my backtesting speed by 99.9%. Here’s how.
100 Backtests in 300 Milliseconds. No, that’s not a typo. Austin Starks Austin Starks 11 min read · Sep 11, 2025 Read t…
September 11, 2025
An AI Agent created this trading strategy autonomously with one prompt. It’s up $3,430 in the past year
This technology will UPEND trading forever When I first told my twin brother about my algorithmic trading agent, he loo…
August 30, 2025
I am building Aurora, the world's only truly Autonomous Algorithmic Trading Agent
Building an Orchestrating AI Agent for Advanced Financial Research and Analysis When I was a software engineer at Oscar…
August 19, 2025
I tested Mswing, “the one indicator to rule them all”. It didn’t work.
I tested Mswing, “the one indicator to rule them all”. It didn’t work.A Cautionary Tale to Doubt What You Read OnlineAus…
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 Mini is the BEST AI Model for Complex Reasoning TasksGPT-5 may have disappointed. But its "mini" model punches abo…
August 12, 2025
I Tested Every Major LLM for Algorithmic Trading. There is One Clear Winner
I Tested Every Major LLM for Algorithmic Trading. There is One Clear WinnerIt’s not Gemini Pro or GPT-5. It’s something…
August 11, 2025