Another late night. Building a quant trading system an agentic model where different AI agents handle research, testing and risk, and none of them is allowed to place a trade on its own.

The hardest part so far? Being honest when the results say "not yet." Most strategies I've tested failed once real costs were included. That's exactly what testing is for.

Keeping The Psychology of Money and The Diary of a CEO close while I figure it out. What are you reading these days?

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Curious how you’ve separated the agents from execution. When you say none can place a trade on its own, is that enforced through a separate execution service with fixed risk checks, human approval or both? I’d love to understand where the agent's decision-making ends and the hard rules take over.

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One last thing: the work dedicated to the children of Palestine.