I just transformed “trading with AI” into a video game
There are 100 excuses people make for why they fail to make money in the stock market.
Most of it comes from inexperience. People see videos of influencers with Rolex watches, infinity pools on a rooftop, and slick lamborghinis, and think that buying their course will fast track themselves on a way to financial freedom.
But just like playing guitar, running track and field, or being a mathlete, trading requires skill. There are no athletes who can jump off a starting block and run 100 meters in 11 seconds by reading a book on sprinting form. At the same time, you can’t learn to trade and invest without real-world practical experience.
Luckily, there is a free platform that gives you real-world experience developing algorithmic trading strategies and teaches you to become a better trader and investor.
It’s honestly like a video game. Let me show you.
How to use AI to trade in 2025?
Using AI to find AI stocksIn the past, you had to be a super genius to deploy your own algorithmic trading strategy. You had to know how to code, understand, financial markets, and have the drive to code your own strategy.
Now, thanks to large language models and tools like NexusTrade, ordinary people can incorporate AI into their trading process.
Creating a trading strategy using AICreating a strategy with AI allows anybody, even investors without a strong technical background, to learn how to trade algorithmically. We can test strategies on historical data and change our parameters to create the best set of rules for any market situation.
Most importantly, we can paper-trade our algorithmic trading strategies, allowing us to learn financial markets without risking our hard-earned money.
Paper-trading our trading strategyIn addition to creating strategies with AI, investors can also do other actions, such as analyzing a watchlist and finding novel investment opportunities. AI is extremely helpful for enabling traders to perform real financial analysis and automate their ideas.
However, there’s just one problem…
Nobody knows how to use it.
The Problems with AI Trading
Learning to trade with AI is extremely difficult for a variety of reasons.
One reason is that most AI trading platforms are outright scams. They pray on people’s limited knowledge of artificial intelligence and finance and promise unrealistic gains that even a savvy investor couldn’t earn in 40 years.
You see this all the time on TikTok and Instagram. Most influencers make more money selling the idea of trading than they actually do in the market.
An example of an IG bio (linktree) that includes paying for mentorships and DiscordsOn the other hand, for legitimate platforms like NexusTrade, there is quite literally nothing out there like it.
If you’re like most people and have never done any algorithmic trading, it is extremely hard to just “figure out” how to use the NexusTrade platform. Some of the questions that I would receive everyday include:
- How do I find new stocks to trade?
- How do I change these stocks into a trading strategy?
- How do I test my strategy in real-time?
- How do I enable real-world trading with Alpaca?
While I wrote literally hundreds of articles and posted dozens of videos on platforms like YouTube, the reality is that most people are not going to want to visit an external website to learn how to trade. They are going to try for 3 minutes, then give up when it’s too hard.
So I recently tried a different approach. I made trading fun, and transformed it into a video game.
A Gamified Approach to Financial Markets
Tutorials about how to deploy algorithmic trading strategiesI decided to use tutorials, rewards, and streaks to “gamify” how people approach financial markets. These mechanisms are designed to motivate people to learn how to trade, step-by-step.
As a reward for their engagement, users can earn “research tokens”. Here’s why these tokens matter.
A Deeper Dive on “Research Tokens”
These tokens can be used throughout the app to help you become a better investor. For example, you can use them to view a GPT stock report, which is an AI-generated analysis of a company’s earnings.
An example of CRM’s GPT Stock ReportThey can also be used to chat with Aurora, the AI Assistant of NexusTrade. Normally, people have a daily allotment of how many messages they can send to Aurora. Research tokens allow people to engage further than their daily limit.
Research tokens in the AI ChatUsers can now earn research tokens in two ways: logging into the app (and creating a “streak”), and completing challenges.
Let’s start with discussing streaks.
Trading Streaks: Encouraging you to learn a little each day
Everyday, users are given rewards for logging into the NexusTrade app.
A 1-day streak in NexusTradeThese streak rewards increase the more consecutive times a user logs in. This is designed to encourage users to use the app more. A user can earn as many as 20 research tokens everyday simply for logging in!
However, as motivating as these tokens might be, they alone don’t necessarily constitute “gamification”.
These daily challenges, however, do.
Trading Tutorials: Getting rewarded for learning to trade
In addition to streaks, users will receive daily challenges that they can complete every single day. Completing these challenges gives their users some rewards.
These challenges give new investors a sense of direction. Because of them, they can quickly learn how to create a strategy, how to analyze stocks, and how to deploy their portfolio.
For example, one tutorial teaches users how to paper-trade a strategy, which is used to test a portfolio without risking their actual money.
Tutorial for deploying a strategyOther tutorials are more chat-based. You learn how to perform actions in the chat, such as creating trading strategies or finding novel investment opportunities.
A tutorial for using the AI-Powered stock screenerWith these challenges, you are quite literally being rewarded for learning how to trade in the real world. They are a fun, motivating way to learn about financial analysis and algorithmic trading. Because of them, trading with AI has never been easier.
Concluding Thoughts
This gamified approach to the market will transform finance. Tools like NexusTrade already gave retail investors access to advance, financial analysis tools. These gamification mechanisms take this one step further.
Using NexusTrade, users can now receive rewards for learning how to create, test, and deploy algorithmic trading strategies. It's designed for anybody to use, yes, including you.
There is no reason for you to not make better financial decisions using AI. You can now perform research, test ideas, and make more informed decisions.
Or, you can sit back and miss the next big stock rally as you gamble away your life savings on poor stock choices.
The choice is yours.
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