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The NexusTrade Blog
AI, finance, and the intersection between the two.
An ex-Jane Street trader told me the secret to AI trading. So I built it.
Episode 2 of the $25,000 Public Portfolio Challenge If you ever watched "The Big Short", you know the type. "My quantita…
March 8, 2026
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.…
February 28, 2026
I launched 10 AI models to battle for the best trading strategy. The cheaper models won every time.
Claude Opus 4.6 Costs 10x More. It NEVER Beat the S&P500 The first time I ran this experiment, I did not believe the res…
February 25, 2026
Most Courses End in a Certificate. This One Ends With a Live Strategy in the Market
Learn to Trade For Free — No Coding Knowledge Required Five years ago, I tried to build my first algorithmic trading st…
January 5, 2026
How to deploy an algorithmic trading strategy without writing a single line of code?
Why this course is the nightmare of the trading guru The trading niche has a specific script on social media. Instead…
December 29, 2025
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
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
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