I’m giving an AI access to my Public trading account. Here’s how you can watch it destroy $25,000
I think I’m a pretty decent trader.
I would say my results speak for themselves, but the truth is, I’m still a novice. I’ve only been doing this successfully for less than 3 years. And now, I arrogantly think that I can continue to outperform the market. That I found the “recipe” for creating good trading strategies.
I’ve been right so far.
Press enter or click to view image in full size My Robinhood account balance; I’m up over $35,000 in the past one year and my current balance is $25,000In the past year, my trading has been so profitable that even after withdrawing $25,000, my net profit still exceeds my total current account balance.
But my gains are invisible to you, the reader. If I’m claiming that I really made an AI platform that can transform anybody into a successful algorithmic trader, then I need to put my money where my mouth is.
Publicly.
So I created a brand new Public brokerage account and deposited $25,000. I’m sharing the account, the strategies, everything so you can track my progress in real-time.
More than that, you’ll watch how AI destroys my portfolio. Either that, or I earn another $25,000 this year.
Here’s my game plan.
Let’s Take a Step Back and Talk about Last Year
My last two years of trading were successful by accident.
Let me explain.
I’ve been tinkering with AI and trading since I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. I’ve tried Deep Reinforcement Learning, have written about “AI trading” since ChatGPT was released, and have contributed substantially to the open-source community.
Eventually, I launched NexusTrade, a no-code agentic trading platform.
To market my platform, I write articles on Aurora’s Insights and Medium. My process is simple – I develop a feature then write an article showcasing it.
By doing so, I noticed two stocks were fundamentally undervalued. Google and NVIDIA were at the forefront of AI, but were trading at a PE ratio of less than 30. To me, that made no sense.
I decided to capitalize on this. I was right.
Despite the fact that I made outstanding gains, I’ve had a hard time sharing it. My exact trading decisions were opaque. My strategies, a black-box. And everything was unsystematic even if you followed my page intensely.
So this gave me an idea. How about I make my portfolio public and focus my next suite of features for making a profitable options trading strategy?
In software engineering, there’s a technique called “test-driven development” (TDD). For NexusTrade, I’ve implemented a new “TDD”.
Trade-Driven Development.
How I am Inventing a New Approach — Trade-Driven Development
The features I built informed my trading decisions, so it’s time to do the reverse.
Instead of building features for the community and discovering potential trading opportunities, I’ll build new features for the sole purpose of supporting my journey and capitalizing on my thesis.
Doubling down on the AI revolution
My goal is to create an options trading strategy to capitalize on AI, just like how I did last year, but more formalized and public so people can see the results.
I’ll start by entering a position into AI stocks.
Looking at NVIDIA right now, it’s cheaper on a price-to-earnings ratio than it was when it was at $120/share.
Press enter or click to view image in full size A graph of NVIDIA’s PE ratio for the past year. It’s at 36, which is the same PE ratio it was in March of last year.Despite having a blockbuster earnings, Wall Street is afraid that the demand for AI will simply not hold.
I understand their argument. I understand NVIDIA’s capital obligations and that if AI is so much better than it was last year, there’s a real argument to be made that we won’t need their powerful chips!
I just simply disagree.
Never in the history of the world has something becoming cheaper caused a decrease in demand. The cotton gin didn’t decrease American slavery; the number of slaves surged and the demand was unmatchable.
Yes, I went there. I’m black. I know my history. It’s true.
But the same story applies to more lighthearted topics, like Excel and the printing press. This technology didn’t bankrupt accountants and destroy the news industry; it just made them more accessible. I believe AI will follow the same exact path.
So I’m going to use options to capitalize on this mispricing.
Options are my primary trading instrument and what I used last year to capitalize on AI. They give me the ability to leverage my bet with a safe, finite loss and a real, tangible deadline.
I’ll post an article on my exact decisions when I choose to make them. The purpose of this article is more structural, to describe my next steps with the platform itself as I build in public.
My Next Steps Within NexusTrade
The most important next step is to start supporting options within NexusTrade.
That means simple stuff like buying a call option directly in the NexusTrade UI. It means complex stuff, like using Aurora to find an options strategy that will profit if Google is between $310 and $340/share. And it means building this stuff in public, so you’ll be able to watch this destruction unfold in real-time.
But all of this takes time. So I want to give some commitments.
My first commitment is absolute transparency. I am sharing my portfolio publicly. You’ll see everything, from my positions, to my buying power, to my actual trading strategies (and my rationale) attached to my account.
You’ll see exactly how I use “artificial intelligence”. From using Aurora to find fundamentally strong stocks that NVIDIA’s chips rely on, to using AI to backtest leveraged trading strategies and having it evaluate whether to double-down or cut my losses.
I will then execute my trade-driven development, beginning with the MVP options features. This includes being able to view the full options chain to the ability to execute simple option orders. This should be finished by the end of March.
Finally, I agree to try this until the end of this year. By then, I can compare my gains to the broader market and ask a simple question: “did my platform help me make smarter trading decisions?”.
Even if my first few trades are executed in Public, you’ll still be able to see it all in real-time.
Here’s how.
How YOU Can Follow Along in Real-Time
You don’t have to patiently refresh Medium every 2 minutes to get an update.
You can follow along in real-time and hold me accountable.
- Just go to my NexusTrade profile
- Create a free account
- Click the “Follow” button on the top of the screen
By following me, you’ll literally be notified the moment my portfolio is deployed. You can set up real-time alerts, clone my trading strategies, and see exactly what I do when I do it.
It’s the highest level of transparency I can possibly offer.
My Final Thoughts
The ultimate test is upon me. Now the only thing left for me is to wait for Public to approve my account.
I’m scared shitless.
It’s not that I’m afraid that I will lose the money. I can live without it.
I’m terrified that the platform I’ve spent 5 years building is not actually useful. That I will fail publicly in front of millions of people with proof of the uselessness of my tool.
So why go through with it?
The truth is, if I don’t do this challenge, I’ll forever be convinced that my success these past two years was pure luck. That my crazy idea of creating an AI trading bot was exactly that:
Crazy.
I’ll prove to the world that it wasn’t.
