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Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
Everything you need to go from manual trader to deploying your first live strategy — indicators, conditions, actions, backtesting, and deployment. Six articles.…
The building blocks I Watched My Portfolio Crash From a Cornell Lecture Hall — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Four types of indicators Why Technical Analysis Alone Will Lose You Money — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Conditions & actions Conditions and Actions: Turning Indicators into Trading Decisions — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals Build your first strategy Build Your First Algorithmic Trading Strategy — Algorithmic Trading Fundamentals
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I am building Aurora, the world's only truly Autonomous Algorithmic Trading Agent
Platform Updates

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.
Backtesting

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%
Trading Strategies

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

 These trading strategies are up 40% or more. Here’s how you can copy them with a single click
Platform Updates

These trading strategies are up 40% or more. Here’s how you can copy them with a single click

Last year, I created “the Neckbeard Index 2”. A Redditor proposed the market demolishing “Neckbeard Index”. I’m creating…

August 12, 2025

 GPT-5 Mini is the BEST AI Model for Complex Reasoning Tasks
Research

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
AI & Automation

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.
Research

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

 🎥 [Recording Ready] Deploy Your First Trading Strategy with a Single Click (54 mins)
Education

🎥 [Recording Ready] Deploy Your First Trading Strategy with a Single Click (54 mins)

🎥 Your Seminar Recording is Ready! Watch How to Deploy Your First Trading Bot in 60 Minutes Hey ${user.firstName}, As p…

August 9, 2025

 OpenAI just released GPT-oss, its first open-source model since GPT-2. Is it as good as they say?
Research

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