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Is NexusTrade legit? Does NexusTrade work?
Austin Starks answers whether NexusTrade is legit by putting the public record on screen. He is a public figure: Google his name and the photos are him. He was a software engineer at Coinbase and starts at Figma in a few weeks, where he will make at least three hundred thousand dollars a year. He has a master's in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon on a GEM Fellowship, which covers full tuition and fees plus a stipend and paid internships. US News ranks Carnegie Mellon number one in the country for graduate computer science, tied with MIT and Stanford. Before that he studied computational biology at Cornell.
He won the USA Powerlifting Ivy League Championship, and his gym max squat is 455 pounds. He built NexusTrade alone: about 1.6 million lines of code across about sixteen thousand commits, written at night after work. His GitHub contributions are public. He publishes when he is right, like buying Google after an NVIDIA windfall, and when he is wrong, like the o1 TQQQ strategy he wrote was down 40 percent after ten months. He put 25,000 dollars of his own money into a live book called the Public Portfolio Challenge. Every position is public.
Figures are as of September 2026. The Figma compensation range on screen is from levels.fyi and describes the company, not an individual offer. The o1 result is the published July 2025 post-mortem, not a live claim.
Transcript
0:00Is NexusTrade legit?
0:01I'm going to tell you why my AI trading bots actually work.
0:04For one, I'm a public figure that's not afraid to show my face.
0:08Google Austin Starks and you see me.
0:10I was a software engineer at Coinbase, and in a few weeks I start at Figma, where I'll make at least three hundred thousand dollars a year.
0:17I have a master's in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and I went there on a full ride.
0:22US News ranks Carnegie Mellon number one in the country for graduate computer science, tied with MIT and Stanford.
0:28Before that I went to Cornell, where I studied computational biology.
0:32I'm a competitive powerlifter who won the Ivy League Championship, and my max squat is four hundred and fifty five pounds.
0:38And I built NexusTrade entirely by myself, which is one point six million lines of code across sixteen thousand commits, and I wrote almost all of it at night after work.
0:50My GitHub contributions are public.
0:52I build in public, and I hold myself accountable.
0:54I publish when I am right, like when I wrote that I was buying Google after my NVIDIA windfall.
0:59I publish when I am wrong, like when I wrote that the o one TQQQ strategy I launched was down forty percent after ten months.
1:07I put twenty five thousand dollars of my own money into a live book called the Public Portfolio Challenge.
1:11Every position is public.
1:13That's why NexusTrade is legit.
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