About
I'm Rakesh Kumar, a software engineer. I test trading ideas before I trust them with my own money. AI helps me research each idea; I write the rules down before seeing the results, and publish what I find, including the ideas that fail, which is most of them. Nothing here is advice.
How the research works
- Each idea gets fixed rules first: what to buy, when, and when to sell. The rules are written down before the results are seen.
- The rules then run on past prices, with trading costs. That's a back-test: hypothetical, and it benefits from hindsight.
- A strategy I decide to use goes live on a set date and is tracked against the S&P 500 (SPY) from then on. The live results are the ones that count.
- Every write-up says whether the idea worked, and how sure the result is. Most don't work, and those get written up too.
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