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AI Gauntlet: My 48-Hour Battle to Forge a Real-World Trading Tool and the New Rules of Quant Trading Firms
This is not a story of seamless success for quant trading firms; it's a dispatch from the digital trenches, a chronicle of a grueling two-day battle against degrading model quality, logical drift, and the frustrating opacity of the very tools we’ve come to rely on.
Bryan Downing
Jul 1810 min read


AI Trading Bot on Windows: Live Demo with Python, Streamlit & Interactive Brokers
The dream of a personal, automated trading system—an AI trading bot-powered alchemist that turns market data into gold—is no longer the exclusive domain of hedge funds and quantitative powerhouses.
Bryan Downing
Jul 1214 min read


Can We Finally Use ChatGPT for Trading as a Quantitative Analyst?
Now, as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT trading demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capabilities, a pressing question emerges: can these AI systems effectively serve as quantitative analysts for trading?
Bryan Downing
May 3011 min read


AI Optimizes program asm: Reinforcement Learning Delivers Faster Code Than GCC
Optimization can achieve superior speedups in low-level program asm code, challenging the supremacy of traditional compilers like GCC and heralding a new era for software performance engineering.
Bryan Downing
May 3014 min read


AI Coding Revolution: How New LLMs Are Generating Institutional-Grade Quant Finance Tools
The announcement, centered around the power of newly released Large Language Models (LLMs), showcases the rapidly evolving capabilities of AI coding in generating complex, high-performance C++ code for institutional-level trading strategies.
Bryan Downing
May 239 min read


Power of Diffusion Models: A Visual Guide for any Quant Researcher
A Visual Guide to How Diffusion Models Work for any Quant Researcher: Understanding the Key Intuitions Behind Text-to-Image Generative AI fr
Bryan Downing
Feb 84 min read


Uncovering the Truth: The Safety of Local AI and the DeepSeek R1 Blog Propaganda
Does running DeepSeek R1 blog locally guarantee privacy? Or are there hidden risks lurking beneath the surface?
Bryan Downing
Feb 33 min read


High Flyer and touch the face of God with Deepseek
High Flyer and touch the face of God seems so powerful with the rise of what was developed in Deepseek.
Bryan Downing
Feb 33 min read


Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek abliteration from quant hedge fund
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has become a global race, with companies and research institutions worldwide vying to creat
Bryan Downing
Jan 253 min read


Breaking Down the Top 5 LLM Model Tools for AI-Generated Source and Math Revolution
LLM model tools have taken the world by storm, demonstrating an uncanny ability to generate human-quality text, translate languages, and eve
Bryan Downing
Jan 83 min read
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