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I Put $25,000 Into an AI Trading Strategy
Austin Starks shares the story behind his Public Portfolio Challenge: putting $25,000 of his own money into an AI trading strategy, auditing the backtests, and publishing the strategies so anyone can check his work. Performance figures reflect the recording, not current returns.
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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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