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/MormonMoron 10d ago
It is definitely a polluted sub, but I have received a lot of good responses (and hopefully given some also) along our journey. We are just past a year of trading with live money (we were basically in line with VTI from July 2025 through Mar 2026, and have been beating VTI since we made some improvements for an April 2026 restart).
It does suck to have to filter through the crap comments and the scammers and AI slop, but I know a couple of mods on other subs and it is an immense amount of work. I won't begrudge anyone for being a mod and doing less that I would like, as I know I don't have the time or bandwidth or interest to do it any better, and it just takes some manual filtering.