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Reddit — r/algotrading
· April 17, 2026 at 19:37
· ⬆ 17 pts
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The author describes a personal project building a multi-agent AI "swarm" system for autonomous trading, using low-cost large language models (Gemini, Claude, GPT) as decision-makers.
The author's thesis is that traditional algorithmic signal-chasing and options flow platforms are obsolete, and that raw AI "intelligence" deployed via a swarm architecture is a superior, cost-effective approach.
Quality assessment: Speculation. This is a personal anecdote about an experimental, paper-traded system with no performance data, backtests, or stress-test results provided. It is a conceptual pitch, not well-researched Due Diligence.
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I've been in the algo programming business for four years...learned a lot about signal chasing and how ass it is. Now everyone wants me to program stupid algos for polymarket to exploit loopholes and exchange differences. I tend to think algos are a waste of time, and so I ditched them, and since the AI revolution have been experimenting with raw AI "intelligence"
I built a multi-agent swarm to trade, with a Queen.... prompted her to protect the hive, make honey. Gave it a "brain" to have memory and "learn" using vectorized data graphs. Has a full set of risk controls. Scouts go and find everything.
Options flow platforms are a thing of the past. Trade signal newsletters are obsolete. Mini models like gemini-flash-lite are all you need and cost pennies on the dollar. This "$50k" app took about 2 months to build using Claude, Gemini, and GPT.
Been running the swarm on a 10min and 20min timeframe (cycles) for about a week, and its done surprisingly well, albeit the market has been in an upswing, so not quite stress tested.
Currently in paper mode, using gemini 2.5 pro for trading decisions. No algos used, just intelligence. Have yet to test between a Claude Queen, Gemini Queen, and OpenAI Queen. OpenAI has a GPT 5.4 thinking and pro which are really expensive. Not sure if that would make a big difference.
I wanted to put feelers out if anyone would be interested in this sort of app? Or maybe just buy since I don't have the wherewithal to run a biz like this.