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Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#51

What is meant by 5 dollar stakes? The bought shares reach triple digits in price.

Each morning the trades are conducted with $5 each, which are mostly fractional shares that are bought.

Would be interesting to see the amount of fractional shares bought as well as its comparison in percentage to the total budget that day.

Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#52
post #4

Right now they are just buying, no one is selling ... interesting.

Warren Buffett always said "...the best thing to do is buy a stock that you don't ever want to sell", but practically speaking the mean hold time for amateurs is around 2 to 4 months.

I just recall Navinder Singh Sarao "$1T Flash Crash" as a notable addition to a long list of algorithmic trading strategies going sideways ( https://marketrealist.com/who-is-navinder-singh-sarao-the-ma... .)

The stock market was built on information asymmetry, unfair positions, and ambitious gamblers... statistically it is rarely a reasonable investment for amateurs.

Good luck, =3

Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#55

It would be neat to see the process, where they get the data from, how they analyze it. It would be neat to also see another experiment of a MAS doing this and coordinating to gamble together. Perhaps even different system/arch/expert configs.

Indeed!

Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#56
post #18

> The goal is to study how different LLMs interpret financial data and make decisions with real consequences. I don't really buy this. If the goal was to study how different LLMs interpret financial data there would be no use for actual trades, since their interpretation cannot be influenced by the fact that the trading orders are passed for real. I believe the goal is to see if AI can do better than rats [0]. There…

Real trades have transaction fees, latency, slippage, etc. - you can simulate all this, but it's hard to know if it's being simulated correctly or not.

> their interpretation cannot be influenced by the fact that the trading orders are passed for real

It's not going to make much difference with $5 trades, but the impact on the market is non-zero.

Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#57
post #18

> The goal is to study how different LLMs interpret financial data and make decisions with real consequences. I don't really buy this. If the goal was to study how different LLMs interpret financial data there would be no use for actual trades, since their interpretation cannot be influenced by the fact that the trading orders are passed for real. I believe the goal is to see if AI can do better than rats [0]. There…

You make fair points. Having them do actual trades is mostly to make it more personally fun and interesting to myself.

Re: Show HN: Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading

#60

What is meant by 5 dollar stakes? The bought shares reach triple digits in price.

Each morning the trades are conducted with $5 each, which are mostly fractional shares that are bought.

You mean they add $5 in cash to each AI’s account? Because after dividends and sold shares they should have even more cash to work with.
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