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by Karrot_Kream 17 days ago
Have you actually put together trading strategies by having the agent drive? I've never trusted it that far and I use agents a lot at my job right now. The way I usually do it is, I break out pen and paper to do an analysis of what I want mathematically. I then have the agent build out some Python that lets me backtest and analyze my work. I read through the code (which is usually fairly compact since numpy/scipy and various finance libraries do most of the heavy lifting for me), make any changes as needed, then run my analysis. Then I run it in a production setting if I like it. But the actual strategy is something I come up with on pen-and-paper.
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I have, and agents come up with the strategy and execution based on my contribution of what sectors to look at and alternative data sources I tell them to look at a certain way. My time horizons are quarters, as well as signal conversion into a variety of single and multi leg options trades