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I Put $25,000 Into an AI Trading Strategy
Austin Starks put $25,000 of his own money into an AI trading strategy and made the strategies public so anyone could inspect his work. In this Public Portfolio Challenge update, he explains why he questioned the backtest results, audited the data, and kept looking for bugs before and after going live.
Watch the story, then open the linked portfolio to follow the challenge. Returns mentioned in the video describe the account at the time of recording.
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0:00$25,000 of my own money and I published an article telling people
0:03to watch an AI destroy it. I wrote that title because I don't think I'm
0:07a quant. I don't have a finance degree, I never worked on Wall Street, and
0:11I've never had a mentor. Everything I know about trading I taught myself.
0:15So when I built this strategy and the numbers came back good I didn't
0:19believe them. I went looking for the bug, I audited the data, and I
0:22tried to break it. Nothing was wrong with it. Then I skipped paper
0:26trading and went straight to live. I opened a brand new brokerage account, put
0:30real money in, and published every strategy so anyone could check my
0:34work. First trade went in on May 4th. The
0:38account is up 22% since then and the S&P is up about seven.
0:42I still go looking for the bug, but I haven't found it yet.
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