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Insights, guides, and deep dives into algorithmic trading, AI strategy development, and building your own trading operation.

Strategy

Building a Trend Strategy with Al Brooks Entries

How an AI used Al Brooks' price action concepts to build a trend-following strategy. We walk through the prompt, the ideas it extracted, and the optimized result — and give away the full source code for free.

Deep dive · 2026
Strategy

GLM 5.3 vs Opus 5

Same prompt, same harness, two very different models. See how open-weights GLM 5.3 holds up against frontier Opus 5 after optimization — and decide whether the price difference buys you a meaningfully better strategy when put through the right harness.

Deep dive · 2026
Strategy

DeepSeek vs Opus 5

Same prompt, same harness, two very different price tags. See how DeepSeek's budget-friendly strategy stacking up against Opus 5's frontier performance after optimization — and decide for yourself whether the gap is worth $25 per million tokens.

Deep dive · 2026
Opus5 On Steroids
Strategy

Opus5 On Steroids

Two variants of the same trend reversal strategy, both built by Opus5 — one straight into MT5, one through a trading harness. Both optimized, and compared. See how a model exposes its parameters and why that makes it far easier to tune.

Deep dive · 2026
Is Anchored VWAP really that good?
Indicators

Is Anchored VWAP really that good?

Brian Shannon's Anchored VWAP is a powerful tool for identifying dynamic support and resistance levels by anchoring volume-weighted average price to a specific starting point — discover why traders swear by it and how you can use it in your own strategies.

7 min read · July 2026
The Secret Reliability Information about EAs
Trading

The Secret Reliability Information about EAs

A guide to evaluating Expert Advisors by analyzing live trading signals. Learn to detect dangerous martingale and averaging strategies using the Many-At-Once-Close pattern, and uncover the real Stop Loss to Take Profit ratio through MAE graphs — before you risk your capital.

4 min read · June 2023