AI Trading Tools Ranked: Alpaca, Public, Cursor, Codex & NexusTrade

0:00Ranking AI tools for creating your own trading agents I have a lot of

0:06experience with this I spent over six years building one of the world's first

0:10publicly available LLM based trading agents Let's get through the tier list together shall

0:16we First we have Robinhood Agents and unfortunately I have to give it a

0:21D tier I love Robinhood It is my primary brokerage for executing manual trades

0:27I know the nerds are gonna start commenting something about GameStop but those people

0:32just aren't that smart Nevertheless

0:35Robinhood isn't the best platform for agent trading It's just simply behind all of

0:41these other options Next we have Alpaca and I have to give it an

0:46A tier Alpaca has an outstanding MCP server

0:51SDKs and an API for all of your agentic trading

0:56You can execute paper trades

0:58you can execute real trades and I know the evangelists are gonna say Alpaca

1:04used to be bad 20 years ago

1:06Alpaca is great for agentic trading You have to try it out yourself Next

1:11up on this list we have Public I also have to give it an

1:15A tier Public is an outstanding brokerage

1:18Again MCP servers SDKs APIs

1:22historical data Public is amazing

1:25You have to add it to your toolkit Next we have Cursor

1:29I'm going to give it an F tier

1:31Cursor isn't what it used to be even six months ago

1:35The usage is shit Compare it to Claude Code and Codex it's shit

1:38I wouldn't use Cursor for agentic trading

1:41In my experience it can't create good trading strategies

1:44Next we have a Claude Code and a Codex I'm gonna rank them together

1:49as S tier You need an agentic coding tool like Claude Code and Codex

1:55I've tried Grokbop I've tried Muse

1:58These aren't smart enough for real agentic algorithmic trading

2:02You're gonna have to use the tried and true

2:05Finally I have NexusTrade This is definitely going to be S tier

2:11NexusTrade is essentially the really the only all in one agentic trading platform out

2:15there It has the same SDKs and MCP servers that both Public and Alpaca

2:20offer You can connect your Public and

2:23Alpaca accounts directly and execute autonomous trades

2:26It has an easy to use UI It has an amazing AI agent and

2:30unlike Public and any other other platforms here it has native support for no

2:36code backtesting and optimization You can just describe your strategy in plain English

2:42The NexusTrade agent Aurora will create it

2:44You can backtest it You can paper trade it and you can deploy it

2:47all within the UI or the MCP server It's just the best tool on

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