hey everyone, probably gonna sound naive here but need some real guidance from people who actually know what theyre doing
context: my dad has been a full-time trader for 25+ years. anyone whos tried trading for even a few months knows how brutal it is to stay profitable consistently and keep emotions in check. hes one of the few who actually made it work long term
ive spent the last year building products (consumer tech) and i keep seeing him do the same manual processes hes been doing since the decades. scanning charts, reading news, annual reports etc, running the same calculations. it works for him but i genuinely think i can retire him early if i can digitize this properly
the rough plan:
* document all his strategies, indicators, decision trees (he uses technical + macro + sentiment)
* train a model on his historical trades with reasoning/context for each decision
* integrate perplexity finance or similar for real-time market data
* output signals directly to whatsapp based on his specific criteria and risk tolerance
i know this sounds like every "i built a trading bot" story that ends badly but hear me out - im not trying to build a generic algo. im trying to replicate ONE specific trader's decision making process that has 25 years of proven results
where i need help:
1. AI engineers: whats the right architecture for this? fine-tuning an LLM on trading decisions? RAG with his documented strategies? hybrid approach?
2. finance people: has anyone actually pulled this off? what are the failure modes im not seeing? is there existing tooling that does something close to this?
3. realistically: am i being delusional thinking i can capture 25 years of intuition in a model or is this actually feasible with current tech?
not trying to sell anything, genuinely just want to give my dad his time back. he still loves trading but the daily grind is getting to him
any pointers, tools, reality checks, or "youre thinking about this wrong" feedback would be massively helpful