which signal was missed?  You

    Volatility daily systems

    Posted by matt on 12th of May 2023 at 12:39 pm

    which signal was missed?  You mean on these volatility systems? No because I am not actively trying to see them in real time and do not have my alert system in place to aleart me on those volatility systems - once I have that and I have also decided that I plan to use them for the website (which I have not yet decided) there will be no issue with alerts-  I also have the option of next bar open for these.  Again good or bad I enjoy showing you guys things I'm working on just because I find it cool and I like to show things - even if they are not ready - but that creates problems at times because you see something I'm working on in beta and you see a trade it just did that would have been good and you feel like you've missed out. I'm simply showing you guys  - hey here's something cool I'm working on - maybe I should not even show these things

    also - AI brought up - guys that's a tool to have help do work for you - just like using a calculator to crunch large numbers vs doing it by old school hand/pencil, it saves you time. But it's not to be used to come up with the creativity and idea for a system. You need to have the system parameters and rules and then ask it to help with that. 

    you should not use AI to come up with the system on it's own. It's not a replacement for your experiences and what you see on the charts. If you see a situation like let's use the MACD KISS/Stoch example where the stochastic gets overbought but the MACD lines have not crossed - you see a valid short trigger off that - you can ask AI to code that for you in X or Y language for you.  Then of course it likely will have bugs and you will need to edit it. What you should not do is expect AI to come with the system ideas and rules - that's for you to do

    Matt, are you familiar with

    Posted by DigiNomad on 12th of May 2023 at 12:50 pm

    Matt, are you familiar with Auto GPT?  If not, you might want to check it out.  I agree with your AI comments, but only as they apply to ChatGPT freeware edition.  Creating full blown trading systems and testing them is almost a perfect task for AI.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=465RFn6KmiQ

    Auto GPT is very very

    Posted by James_Roe on 12th of May 2023 at 01:29 pm

    Auto GPT is very very buggy.

    It's potentially interesting tech, but it is not useful tech at the moment.

    again DO NOT let AI

    Posted by matt on 12th of May 2023 at 12:57 pm

    again DO NOT let AI do the creativity part for you! It's a tool guys. I don't care what some guy on Youtube may show as an idealized example. 

    I've tried it - asked it to come up with some things - the stats were okay on the surface but when I dived into the past trades looking at them individually, it was not something you would have wanted to follow. 

    and if you feel that strongly that you can just some AI to do all this - why they hell do you guys need us? we might as well close up shop and you can just trust the bots

    to me it's a great tool it's not a replacement for creativity and having 25 years looking at charts and all the knowledge and experience that gives you

    it's like some of these hedge funds that go and hire PhD math and physics student's out of college to create systems - the problem they run into do that is first off those young adults are clearly very smart - but they don't have experience trading the markets, seeing market behavior - that takes years of experience that you can only gain the hard way. You need to gain that experience then use your intelligence to create something -just being smart doesn't mean you can create a trading system on the market if have not spent 1000's of hrs watching price action to get the 'feel' - kind of like a wisdom that only comes after years of life that a 50 year old has over a 20 year old

    maybe you could name these

    Posted by morton7 on 12th of May 2023 at 01:24 pm

    maybe you could name these systems MattChat   

    Yes, morton, or even MattChatBPT

    Posted by timebandit on 12th of May 2023 at 01:32 pm

    Yes, morton, or even MattChatBPT

    Matt, what is a chief

    Posted by junkie on 12th of May 2023 at 01:10 pm

    Matt, what is a chief weakness of trading algos or systems created by AI?

    One of the biggest current

    Posted by James_Roe on 12th of May 2023 at 01:24 pm

    One of the biggest current limitations is that large language model AI is not general intelligence, it's just aware of a lot of the discourse.

    As such all of its answers are essentially group think, from playing around with it you mostly get RSI, MACD and moving average cross strategies. These can be OK but we have a lot more complexity in our systems, particularly the swing systems for managing risk.

    James, are systems created by

    Posted by junkie on 12th of May 2023 at 01:32 pm

    James, are systems created by AI profitable at all then? Based on your comments, AI created systems will side with the majority, and hence will lose in trading: majority loses trading markets. Correct?

    I've seen profitable ones, but

    Posted by James_Roe on 12th of May 2023 at 01:37 pm

    I've seen profitable ones, but they often have undesirable features like holding for years at a time.

    The tech is rapidly improving but you have to tell them what you want specifically, just asking for a generally profitable strategy isn't going to get you something compelling.

    Essentially everything I've built with them has also had errors so you have to be able to do your own code review.

    I've spent a lot of

    Posted by James_Roe on 12th of May 2023 at 01:45 pm

    I've spent a lot of time playing with this stuff as it's clear that it's going to change essentially every industry in the next few years, but if you want to get a good grasp of its limitations try asking ChatGPT to design a novel experiment to advance a unified field theory.

    What you get back is essentially just experiments that have already been proposed by scientists in literature. It doesn't know more than current humans, it's just better at aggregating data.

    Agreed.  This is the difference

    Posted by fredsaid on 12th of May 2023 at 01:56 pm

    Agreed.  This is the difference between today's AI and AGI (Articicial General Intelligence).  Once AI learns how to 'think' with new potential data models, given it's power already demonstrated in aggregating vast amounts of data - look out and I don't think we are too far away.   The other thing worthy of note is even without AGI, there are sooooo many jobs that AI makes vastly easier/more powerful/efficient it will have a profound impact in it's current form.  There is a lot of money to be made providing ChapGPT like, customized and updateable data models for every industry on earth.  A wealth of companies are being launched to fill this gap.

    Yep, ChatGPT is very limited

    Posted by DigiNomad on 12th of May 2023 at 01:48 pm

    Yep, ChatGPT is very limited without the ability to link to and prompt other systems and then iterate based on the data it receives. Almost gimmicky in the public facing version. 

    Even the integrated stuff is

    Posted by James_Roe on 12th of May 2023 at 01:51 pm

    Even the integrated stuff is bad at the moment, i run a couple thousand or so queries a day through autogpt using the gpt4 model and the results are underwhelming at best. I find i have to give it very short, very specific goals and do a lot of hand holding to advance projects.

    James - that's awesome that

    Posted by DigiNomad on 12th of May 2023 at 01:57 pm

    James - that's awesome that you are playing with it at all! I'm jealous. Need to devote some time to coding again before this revolution passes me up. 

    Not if they backtest and

    Posted by DigiNomad on 12th of May 2023 at 01:33 pm

    Not if they backtest and optimize the system they create....it is possible. Have to be willing to iterate after that...just like in real life.   The trick is having an AI that is able to access live data sets....which is NOT ChatGPT. 

    I'm here mostly for the

    Posted by DigiNomad on 12th of May 2023 at 01:07 pm

    I'm here mostly for the camaraderie - AI can't replace that  

    Ubetcha Digi   

    Posted by steve on 12th of May 2023 at 01:08 pm

    Ubetcha Digi   

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