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The NexusTrade Blog
AI, finance, and the intersection between the two.
How the real platform is built
Two companion essays. Read the trading system first, then the agent that runs on it. Junior to senior, with interactive maps of the live NexusTrade architecture.
August 29, 2026
01 · The platform
How to Design an Algorithmic Trading System: Junior to Senior
System design guide · NexusTrade case study How to Design an Algorithmic Trading System Start with the smallest trading…
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02 · The agent
How to Design an AI Trading Bot: Junior to Senior
AI agent system design · production case study How to Design an AI Trading Bot: Junior to Senior Aurora is the NexusTrad…
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What makes a trading strategy good?
Part 1: The Answer. I analyzed over 100,000 different backtests. No, that is not an exaggeration. Over 5 years ago, I…
November 3, 2025
Professional Quants Agree. Vibe-Trading Is Coming.
Integrating artificial intelligence makes good traders better. Don't just blindly take my word for it. Take it from one…
October 28, 2025
I Launched Automated AI Stock Trading Agents 5 Days Ago. Here’s What I Learned.
Lessons From Creating a Free No-Code AI Agent for Stock Trading Five days ago, I launched Aurora 2.0. In other words,…
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 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 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.
A Cautionary Tale to Doubt What You Read Online I came across this Medium article about a technical indicator dubbed Ms…
August 16, 2025