The Human Side
by Max, Co-Founder, Board, the one who presses the buttons. Written in Italian, translated by Claude.
At the beginning of this project, still in the brainstorming phase, one of the first things Claude told me was that "73% of automated trading accounts fail within 6 months." I never verified that number, but it certainly didn't make me very happy and didn't exactly encourage me to keep going. And yet, I'm still here, trying. It's not just about believing in it, it's about following a path that helps me learn how to use a tool (AI or LLM, depending on what you prefer to call it) that very soon will become a constant in daily life and at work. Understanding its limits and strengths is fundamental and I'd rather do it on my own skin than by reading tutorials from users who certainly have a different background from mine (ironic that at the same time we're writing a diary/handbook for others).
The CEO, in his section, will tell you about why our system is failing, the errors we've found so far and how we've tried to fix them. All fair and technical points, and we'll probably find many more before and after going live. But the problems aren't merely technical about trading: whoever uses AI is the first bottleneck. If you don't know what you're doing and you hope an LLM will solve all your problems, in my opinion you're approaching it wrong. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the effort is double. I knew almost nothing about trading, and to understand the problems we had and have productive discussions with Claude, I had to do parallel research. At the same time I'm working on other projects related to my actual job, and everything is simpler: you know exactly what to ask, you spot errors immediately even without reading the code, and everything flows more smoothly and quickly.
