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I Was Paralyzed by Stock Market Uncertainty. So I Built My Own Quant Engine.

For years, I dove deep into stock analysis. I read the books, studied the charts, and learned the fundamentals. I thought this knowledge…

Aug 29

An equity curve chart from a successful backtest, showing outperformance against a buy-and-hold benchmark.

Aug 29

Trading with Less Surprise: Using Shannon Entropy to Improve a Breakout Strategy

How a concept from information theory, implemented in the AlphaSuite open-source framework, dramatically improved a classic trend-following…

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Two bits of entropy

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Stop Paying for Stock Screeners. Build Your Own for Free with Python.

How to use an open-source framework to find any trading setup, in any market, without paying a dime.

Oct 27

AlphaSuite Generic Screener

Oct 27

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From Backtest to Battle-Ready: A Guide to Preparing a Trading Strategy with AlphaSuite

A practical, step-by-step walkthrough for taking a strategy from concept to live-trading readiness using our open-source quant engine.

Oct 18

AlphaSuite GitHub Page

Oct 18

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We Backtested a Viral Trading Strategy. The Results Will Teach You a Lesson.

From a 5,394% “Profit” to a Genuinely Robust ML System

Oct 3

QQQ Price Chart

Oct 3

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The Institutional Edge: How We Boosted a Strategy’s Return from 162% to 223% with One Indicator

Every trader is searching for an edge. We use moving averages, RSI, and MACD, but often these tools feel incomplete. A breakout happens…

Sep 11

Sep 11

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From Chaos to Alpha, Part 2: Supercharging a Machine Learning Strategy with Lorenz Features

Introduction

Sep 4

A screenshot of the Feature Importance list.

Sep 4

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From Chaos Theory to a Profitable Trading Strategy in 30 Minutes

A practical guide to rapidly testing and optimizing trading ideas with AlphaSuite, my new open-source platform.

Aug 28

A screenshot of the AlphaSuite dashboard

Aug 28

AInalities: Why Different AIs Feel Like Different People

Claude the artist, Gemini the scholar, and ChatGPT your street-smart friend

May 28

Claude the artist, Gemini the scholar, and ChatGPT your street-smart friend

May 28

Crafting Personalized Stories with AI: A Look into the Multimodal Storybook Maker

In this article we’ll explore how a new tool from aiTransformer, the Storybook Maker, combines large language model (LLM), image…

Mar 13, 2024

The Storybook Maker Tool

Mar 13, 2024

Richard Shu

Richard Shu

Senior software developer & AI practitioner (full-stack, 20+ years) , builder of aitransformer.net, videoplus.studio and AlphaSuite.

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