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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 Launched Automated AI Stock Trading Agents 5 Days Ago. Here’s What I Learned.
AI & Automation

I Launched Automated AI Stock Trading Agents 5 Days Ago. Here’s What I Learned.

Lessons From Creating a Free No-Code AI Agent for Stock Trading Five days ago, I launched Aurora 2.0. In other words,…

October 12, 2025

 How to backtest hundreds of strategies in 15 seconds or less using AI Agents
AI & Automation

How to backtest hundreds of strategies in 15 seconds or less using AI Agents

A shortcut for finding the best trading strategies Imagine you had an idea for a trading strategy.  It can be dumb simpl…

October 6, 2025

 I went through hell and back migrating to TimescaleDB. I didn’t last two weeks.
Research

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.
Backtesting

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
AI & Automation

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
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