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I Let an LLM Agent Search for Trading Strategies. A Simple Heuristic Beat It.

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I gave DeepSeek V3 forty chances to find a profitable trading strategy. A simple heuristic found +52% net. The LLM's early proposals lost money. After fixing three silent bugs the agent surfaced, it improved — then optimized its way to +123.7%, a number that didn't survive scrutiny. Here's what hap…

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  1. 2026-10-20 18:22 · DEV Community — AI
    I Let an LLM Agent Search for Trading Strategies. A Simple Heuristic Beat It.

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