u/FortuneXan6 ·
Reddit — r/algotrading
· April 13, 2026 at 13:28
· ⬆ 28 pts
· 💬 36 comments
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A novice trader, after manual trading losses, used ChatGPT's free tier to generate a PineScript strategy for TradingView.
The author presents a heavily overfit, two-week backtest of a supposed HFT scalping strategy operating only in the first 10 market minutes, ignoring fees/slippage, and plans to use leverage with limited capital.
Quality assessment: Noise. This is a satirical or profoundly naive post highlighting all the classic pitfalls of poor strategy development: insufficient data, curve-fitting, ignoring transaction costs, and a complete lack of robustness testing.
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should I go live with my strategy?
I started trading this year and lost a lot of money so now I decided to write a trading strategy to remove the emotion and trade automatically.
using ChatGPT’s free tier I told it to build me a profitable strategy for TradingView pinescript and was extra careful to tell it not to make any mistakes.
attached it photograph of my screen (not a screenshot) with the results of a TradingView backtest based on 2 whole weeks of 5m candle data.
I haven’t added fees or slippage yet but I’m sure that won’t make much difference.
I spent ages tweaking and fine tuning tiny variables to optimize it to be as profitable as possible, if I change these much the whole thing goes red so I’m glad I was able to find the perfect settings to make it go green.
I’m looking for feedback but I can’t tell you much about my strategy because I don’t want JP Morgan to steal my edge.
I can tell you that it is an HFT scalping strategy that enters and exits a trade in less than a minute before the candle even closes, using super tight trailing stops (pretty cool when it catches a big breakout!)
this means it only needs to trade between 9:30 and 9:40 each day and I can spend the rest of my time doing whatever I want!
I don’t have much money so I think I will use leverage with this strategy so I can make more money.
what am I missing? do you think I’m ready to quit my job?
please don’t ask me any difficult questions about things I don’t understand, I’m new to algotrading.