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Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Re: Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Post by kokanee »

infecto wrote: post #4

I don’t understand this constant fascination with having language models trade stocks. Language models are very useful tools but not aligned at all with generating alpha.

As much as I hate the idea of enabling the desperate masses to gamble like this, LLMs are very aligned tools for sentiment analysis, which can be the foundation of a trading strategy. I think it's extremely irresponsible to use them for execution, though.

Re: Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Post by Johnny555 »

tyre wrote: post #3

If there was anything missing from the average American’s economic wellbeing, it was the ability to create bespoke financial products to scalably make bets against informed professional traders while they sleep.

And not just informed professional traders -- also insiders with privileged information about world events that let them trade before the news hits. Now AI agents are going to be chasing phantom signals that look like they might be evidence of an insider's move.

Re: Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Post by xiaoyu2006 »

tombert wrote: post #28
infecto wrote: post #4

I don’t understand this constant fascination with having language models trade stocks. Language models are very useful tools but not aligned at all with generating alpha.

I use the Interactive Brokers MCP pretty heavily. I don't do any cool automatic fun "trading", but instead I use it to have "pseudo-QQQ". I didn't like the relatively high fees for QQQ, and I realized that Invesco releases the weights for QQQ for free. I also think Tesla is too overvalued, and I want to avoid the SpaceX IPO. With the Interactive Brokers MCP, I just feed it the CSV of QQQ's weights, tell it to remove…

This is fair use, but an average person will just spam LLM with "give me money making strat"....

Re: Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Post by nemonemo »

tadfisher wrote: post #17
unglaublich wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The usual question: what's "aligned with generating alpha" that a human stock trader can do, but an ai can't?

That is sidestepping the point: 70-90% of retail traders lose money. The question should be: is AI trading enough of an improvement to justify its non-subsidized costs?

Just like any useful tools, there would be an expert super tool user who could probably generate enough profit based on the tools. The majority would not profit from it in the long run (the monopolistic tool makers would reap any profit from the value chain.)

Re: Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

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Post by mrbombastic »

I was a fan of Robinhood's mission of democratizing finance and prioritizing UX for casual traders. They seem to jump on every hype train though, crypto, prediction markets, now agentic trading, whether it is ethical or not or good for their customers or not, and it seems like the distance between "democratizing finance" and "finding new suckers" is closing. Disappointing but not surprising.
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