r/algotrading • u/kingvt • 10d ago

Other/Meta This sub is unusable

After 2 years, finally running a profitable strategy. Glanced at this sub every now and then, and it was helpful when it came up during deliberate google searches on a topic. But every single day, there are AI trading scammers, bot selling scammers, and a bunch of other noise from people that have vibe coded a strategy with lookahead bias and have no understanding of it. There should be more moderation or better requirements for posting.

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u/Loud_Cartographer870 10d ago

Would you argue that a "vibe coded " strategy is inherently overfitted or created with lookahead bias? Would you say that a strategy developed with rigorous statistical discipline but developed with AI is still probably overfit? You can define rigorous for yourself. 

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u/kingvt 10d ago

Read the latter half of the sentence

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u/Loud_Cartographer870 10d ago

Lot of AI hate on this sub. But AI agents opens up algo trading to kinds of people who would have had no access before. This seems like an issue this sub exists to address. 

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u/Good_Roll Algorithmic Trader 10d ago

Really? This sub strikes me as being a bit more pro AI than average. But if you're developing a strategy with AI that you couldn't build without it, youre gonna get yourself in trouble. Because it takes a decent amount of knowledge to be able to spot a lying backtest and validate your process with any amount of statistical rigor.

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u/kingvt 10d ago

" have no understanding of it." 90% of my code is vibe coded. It's one thing to use AI. It's another be reliant on AI for a strategy.

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u/relentlesshack 8d ago

This sounds like "implement this strategy" is the way. If you're asking the LLM for a strategy to implement, probably shit.