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NexusTrade’s 2024 year in review

Crypto strategies, company research, watchlists and the first Alpaca trading integration: what I built while running NexusTrade on my own.

Austin Starks Austin Starks ✦ Founder, NexusTrade ✦ December 28, 2024 ✦ 3 min read

Originally published December 28, 2024. Restored on October 11, 2026 from the article's retained text after its HTML import was found to be damaged.

From research app to trading platform

I started NexusTrade to help beginners and non-technical investors learn algorithmic trading and financial research. In this December 2024 review, I reported growth from 1,703 to 14,319 users during the year. Those are the figures reported at publication, not today's user count.

The biggest change was practical: users could move from researching a company to building a rule, testing it and executing a trade through Alpaca. Here is what shipped in 2024.

The work, grouped by what it let you do

  • Build crypto strategiesBitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum support let users research and test cryptocurrency rules in the strategy library.
  • Ask a stock-screening questionAurora gained a natural-language stock screener. Instead of starting with a company name, users could look for companies matching a financial question.
  • Use company fundamentals in rulesRevenue, net income, free cash flow and P/E ratio became available as strategy inputs.
  • Keep research on a watchlistSaved stock lists and tailored daily emails helped users revisit the companies they had researched.
  • Read an AI stock reportGPT Stock Reports used company earnings data to produce an analysis and rating. I described them as a starting point for learning, not a perfect way to value a company.
  • Continue a strategy in chatAttachments, shared conversations, additional research tokens, automatic quicktests and customizable backtest fees expanded the chat workflow.
  • Secure and share an accountThe profile page, Google sign-in, two-factor authentication and referral page were updated.
  • Trade through AlpacaThe integration supported manual and semi-automated trading. Fully automated public trading was still described as a planned release with additional guardrails.

I was doing the design, engineering, marketing and product work alongside my full-time job. This list is the work I wanted to record at the end of that year.

One research lesson from the year

The screener also became a way to question market sayings. I wrote about the “Santa Claus rally”: an average December gain alone was not enough to establish a statistically significant effect in the analysis I described. That is the kind of question I wanted NexusTrade to make easier to investigate.

The lesson is broader than December. A story about a pattern should lead to a specific test, not replace one.

What I planned for 2025

At the time, my priorities were in-app tutorials, personalization, broader cryptocurrency support, better sharing and collaboration, and copying strategies. Fully automated trading was awaiting guardrails and recovery mechanisms. Intraday backtesting and further strategy optimization were also on the roadmap.

A historical roadmap

These are plans recorded on December 28, 2024. They are not a statement of which features are available today.

Original subscription offer

The original post advertised WALLSTREET50 for 50% off the first year of the Wall Street Elite plan. This is preserved as a historical detail, not an active offer.

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