Cash Cow and TradeDesk
A research terminal where code decides which price moves matter and the model only explains them, plus a paper desk that refuses to claim an edge it cannot show.
Results reported as they came: no paper book beat buy and hold after fees over 24 months
- Problem
- AI market commentary mixes invented reasons with real ones, and strategy dashboards show flattering numbers without fees.
- My role
- Solo builder: price feeds, rules, a backtester with a held-out period, paper strategy books and a native Mac dashboard.
- Shipped
- A CLI research terminal, a paper trading engine and a Mac dashboard.
- Stack
- Outcome
- An eval fails the build if the dashboard claims an edge that does not survive the checks
- There is no live trading mode