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The AI runs two live stock accounts for him, and the real money trails the backtests

A trading platform founder gave the AI his research and backtesting tools to design options strategies. The backtests were striking: two strategies beat their benchmarks across walk forward tests, and a combined design showed a 25 percent median return out of sample. The live money tells a soberer story. As of October 16 his original $25,000 account stands at $26,746.61, up 6.99 percent after giving back much of an early 26.58 percent run, and the newer $13,500 account is at $12,904.45, down 4.41 percent. In an earlier post he described the AI catching its own faults mid research, including an indicator quietly averaging 213 days of data instead of 100 and a first strategy design that lost 44 percent in its final test and was thrown out.

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How it works

  1. The AI designs strategies and runs backtests
  2. Walk forward tests pass
  3. Two live accounts funded, $25,000 and $13,500
  4. The AI reads order and fill logs and catches its own data bugs
  5. Live results tracked in public against benchmarks

Why it’s worth knowing

He publishes the uncomfortable part: the live accounts trail the beautiful backtests, and the logs stay public anyway.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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