austin-starks

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by austin-starks 6mo ago
How Claude Opus 4.7 rebuilt the data-loading pipeline in my backtesting engine.
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by austin-starks 6mo ago
Hi HN, a friend submitted this. Here's the short version: I was recently fired from my SWE job at Coinbase. When I joined, I fully disclosed a side project I'd been building for 5 years, an algorithmic trading platform called Nexu
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by austin-starks 6mo ago
Interesting application of AI outside of development. Unfortunately super expensive right now, but has the potential to be a LOT cheaper with dedicated hardware. What do y'all think?
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by austin-starks 7mo ago
TL;DR: Use LLMs to analyze unstructured data, use the insights to create trading strategies. Leetcode ez
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by austin-starks 7mo ago
TL;DR: I am a solo founder building an AI trading platform with more faith in myself than I probably should have. So much faith that I'm willing to publicly embarrass myself by sharing everything with the world. Here's how you can
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by austin-starks 8mo ago
An article describing how to trade with AI the right way.
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by austin-starks 8mo ago
How I 2x’d the S&P 500 with a single prompt
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Too many idiots are using OpenClaw to trade(nexustrade.io)
4 points by austin-starks 8mo ago|1 comments
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by austin-starks 8mo ago
TL;DR: Treat LLMs as trading strategy engineers, not discretionary traders.
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Building a fast highly-configurable Rust-based backtesting system(nexustrade.io)
2 points by austin-starks 9mo ago|1 comments
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by austin-starks 9mo ago
A deep technical document describing how I built a no-code algorithmic trading platform that outperforms the industry standard in terms of performance. If you're interested in performance optimization, system design, or Rust, this is a
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by austin-starks 9mo ago
TL;DR: BKR and WFRD
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by austin-starks 10mo ago
better returns, better risk-adjusted returns, and lower drawdown. Is this the future of finance?
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by austin-starks 11mo ago
As someone who has spent years building algorithmic trading software, this is game-changing. This one platform has ALL of the tools needed to do Wall-Street-grade research and analysis. Have you guys integrated AI into your workflow? Why or
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Anybody keep hearing about "vibe-trading" on TikTok and Reddit? Who has tried it(reddit.com)
2 points by austin-starks 11mo ago|3 comments
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by austin-starks 11mo ago
> Vibe trading is a process where you essentially prompt an AI to create profitable trading strategies. AI models act like junior quantitative analysts, and completely automate the work of ideation, financial research, testing, and deplo
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by austin-starks 1y ago
The model isn't not SOTA for complex reasoning. It's slower than other models in my testing. And it can't explain the issues with a graph that a 10th grade high school school student can. How is this "PHD-level inteligen
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR (Too Lazy; Didn’t Read): Google I/O 2025 showcased impressive AI advancements including Imagen 4 and Veo 3 that outperform competitors in image and video generation Google demonstrates a strong financial position with Q
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR: Rust is powerful, fast, and admired — but it's a terrible first programming language for beginners. I rebuilt my entire algorithmic trading platform in Rust and, while the performance gains were real, the development pain was in
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I created an AI Trading Platform, as well as a community of traders that use it(nexustrade.io)
2 points by austin-starks 1y ago|1 comments
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR: This article describes a free AI Trading platform and the community of people around it. The platform has over 100 people in it already in one day. If you want to learn about how AI is applied to algorithmic trading, then you should
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR, this model isn't the major upgrade that people say it is. The model is roughly the same as the previous version, with slower response times, worse reasoning skills, and the same overall coding ability
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GPT-4.1 permanently transformed how the world will interact with data(nexustrade.io)
1 points by austin-starks 1y ago|1 comments
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR, GPT-4.1 (and Gemini 2.5 Pro) are capable of generating accurate SQL queries for data questions. They do so at a better price AND performance than models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Grok 3. This has massive implications for data scient
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by austin-starks 1y ago
"Quasar Alpha" is capable of building complex, profitable algorithmic trading strategies
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR, Even finance isn't safe
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by austin-starks 1y ago
These new "Quasar Alpha" and "Optimus Alpha" models performed better than every other large language model, was faster, and free. The AI race is just getting started.
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by austin-starks 1y ago
TL;DR: Google is both better AND cheaper for SQL Query generation
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by austin-starks 2y ago
TL;DR we're cooked
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by austin-starks 2y ago
TL:DR; I used Claude to create a trading strategy. I then optimized the trading strategy using a genetic algorithm. The result is a strategy that outperforms the market by 3x. It has a better return, better risk-adjusted return, AND a lower

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