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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
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
GPT-5 Mini is the BEST AI Model for Complex Reasoning Tasks
GPT-5 may have disappointed. But its "mini" model punches above its weight class Like the entire world, I too was disap…
August 12, 2025
I Tested Every Major LLM for Algorithmic Trading. There is One Clear Winner
It’s not Gemini Pro or GPT-5. It’s something else entirely I make a lot of money in the stock market. Press enter or cl…
August 11, 2025