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AI, finance, and the intersection between the two.
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
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
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August 9, 2025
How I built an AI that magically rebalances your portfolio
Imagine Executing a Dozen Trades With the Click of a Button Everybody has heard of “the Magnificent 7”. You don’t have…
August 5, 2025
Last year, I used GPT o1 to create a trading strategy. It is the WORST strategy I’ve ever seen
No Exaggeration. This strategy did worse than penny stocks! Ten months ago, OpenAI shocked the world with their O1 mode…
July 12, 2025