Why I Stopped Trading and Started Tendering with AI For years, I chased the dragon of algorithmic trading. Backtesting strategies, optimizing parameters, chasing slippage… the whole nine yards. I poured countless hours (and frankly, too much money) into building systems that promised to consistently outperform the market. And for a while, some did. But the constant arms race, the changing market conditions, the ever-present threat of black swan events... it was exhausting. I felt like Sisy...