Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by poulpy123 on Monday July 21, 2025 @09:58AM
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Well the most important information is missing: what was your ROI ? :D
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Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by kqr on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:09AM
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I'm going to assume this project is at best a few years old, so return over index is more likely to be an indicator of overbetting (taking on too much risk) than a performance indicator.
Backtesting would be more useful. Of course, LLMs cannot be backtested since they know the past.
This system is impossible to test. I would be hesitant to trust it.
Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by tmaly on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:01PM
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it looks like the code was committed a week ago. I do not see an iterative history on the code
Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by TuringNYC on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:15AM
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>> I'm going to assume this project is at best a few years old, so return over index is more likely to be an indicator of overbetting (taking on too much risk) than a performance indicator.
Best metric here would be a Sharpe Ratio and drawdown details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
> This system is impossible to test. I would be hesitant to trust it.
Disagree. Best test would be a paper test going forward, audited by a common platform.
Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by kqr on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:32AM
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Any forward test depends on market assumptions. I'm not a practitioner, and as a layperson I wouldn't know whose assumptions to trust.
Re:Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by haniehz on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:10PM
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I didn’t build this to beat the market...it started as a way to reduce my own decision fatigue and make sure I wasn’t missing obvious signals. That said, it’s more of a research agent than a trading bot. For ROI, it’s not auto-trading, but it has helped me avoid a few bad calls and made my reports more consistent and thorough.