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AI can now write the code, run the backtest and hand you a beautiful equity curve in a single afternoon. But there is a huge problem that most traders don’t know about.
Traders using AI are splitting into two camps:
- The first asks AI for a trading system, optimises it on every bar of data it has, and produces an amazing looking equity curve. AI lets them overfit strategies faster than ever before.
- The second camp gives AI a process to follow: complete rules written down before the first test, data held back that the system never sees, every result judged against criteria set in advance, and every step and calculation driven by a rigorously defined system development process. For them, AI does the coding, the testing and the paperwork, and it never skips a step… and it produces robust, tradeable systems faster than ever before (Hint: It can be as little as 10-15 minutes depending on the strategy)
Both camps will end their afternoon of analysis with a great-looking backtest. But only one of them has a system worth trading.
In this webinar, Adrian Reid, founder of Enlightened Stock Trading and a systematic trader for over 25 years, takes one trading idea through both workflows side by side. You will see where the two paths part ways, and why only one of them survives contact with unseen data.
You will also see how AI agents can now drive backtesting software for you, from writing the code to running the tests and documenting the results. You no longer need to learn to code to build a trading system. You do still need to understand the process, because AI will follow whatever process you give it, good or bad.
Attendees will leave knowing:
- The six things you must control yourself when AI builds and tests your systems
- How to tell a real edge from a lucky curve before you risk any capital
- What AI should and should not be trusted to decide
- What happens after the backtest: incubation, and how to know when an edge has stopped working
Who Should Attend:
This webinar is for traders who want AI to make their research better, not just faster. It is particularly suited to:
- Traders using ChatGPT, Claude or similar tools to generate or test trading ideas, who want to know whether their results can be trusted
- Systematic and algorithmic traders who want AI to take over the coding and testing without giving up control of the process
- Discretionary traders who want to build their first rules-based system and have been put off by having to learn to code
- Anyone who attended the previous session, AI in Systematic Trading, and wants to see the next step
No coding experience is required. The focus is on process and judgement, not software.
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