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I Found Why 90% of Traders Who Try AI Automation Fail (responding to dm's)

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0:07I get five to 10 DMs every single day on

0:09my Instagram of people who are

0:11struggling with using AI in day trading

0:12or they're having issues with back

0:14testing or live prices or really any of

0:17these five topics in day trading. And

0:19this video is to address the 90% of

0:22issues that you're having with day

0:24trading so that you can figure out what

0:26you have going wrong, make a change,

0:28implement it, and actually achieve your

0:30goals, actually get to where you want to

0:32be. If you don't know who I am, my name

0:35is Luke. I'm known on the internet as

0:38little fish. I have been day trading for

0:39over three years, and I have been using

0:41AI for around four years. This year, I

0:43started using AI in my day trading. For

0:46the first half of the year, I was doing

0:47AI assisted day trading where I wasn't

0:49watching the charts anymore. AI was

0:51watching the charts for me, sending me

0:52signals of trades, and it led me to my

0:54biggest month ever. I've made over five

0:57figures in payouts, and this summer I

0:59started my own live account, risking my

1:01own personal capital on my training.

1:03I've also started doing completely

1:06autonomous training. So, that was AI

1:07assisted. I'm now in the process of full

1:09AI automation. So, Claude built the

1:12strategy. Claude did the back test.

1:15Claude is placing the trades on proper

1:17and just yesterday I passed two accounts

1:20and those are now funded accounts and

1:22this morning Claude placed a trade and

1:24won a trade on the funded account. So

1:26hopefully we can keep making progress on

1:27those and get that money printer that

1:30everybody's after and that's going to be

1:32the first question probably the most

1:35common is can I have your bot? People

1:39want the money printer. Of course we do.

1:41Nobody gets into day trading because

1:43they're passionate about the way that

1:45stocks move. You're here to make money.

1:47We all are. That's why I started. That's

1:49why you started. That's why we're here.

1:51We're trying to make as much money as we

1:53can in an easier route. The idea that

1:57you can now have this money printer that

2:00runs around the clock is so appealing.

2:02It's less friction. It's easy. Why

2:04wouldn't you want that?

2:07But AI amplifies you.

2:11AI pushes your personality to its

2:14extreme. If you are a lazy person, AI is

2:17going to make you lazier. If you are a

2:19person with high agency, AI is going to

2:22allow you to do even more. And the first

2:25thing I actually want to talk about here

2:26is a parable from the Bible in Matthew

2:2925. And it's the parable of the talents.

2:32In this parable, there's three men.

2:36The first guy gets five talents. The

2:39second guy gets two talents and the last

2:42guy gets one talent. Now the five guy

2:44who has five talents, he goes out and he

2:46trades in the market and he gets five

2:48more talents and he brings them back.

2:50The second guy does the same thing. He

2:52goes and he trades his two talents and

2:54he brings two more talents back. Now the

2:57last guy, he went and he buried his

2:59talent because he was afraid and he

3:01didn't want to work. And when he came

3:04back, he only had the one talent he

3:06made. Now when the master spoke to these

3:09servants, the one who had made five

3:11talents, he gave five more talents. The

3:15one who made two talents, he gave two

3:18more talents. And the guy who made one

3:21talent, he said, "Why did you only wake

3:23one talent?" Because he was afraid. He

3:26was afraid what the master would do if

3:28he lost. And so the master took his

3:31talent away for not taking the risk.

3:33Now, that's a story about risk, but it

3:35applies the same here in the sense of

3:38working. AI is not going to give you the

3:41magical money printer that you want. If

3:44you're here because you want to know how

3:45to build the magic printer that you

3:48click a button, you wake up and you make

3:49money and you never had to do any work

3:50and now you just live for free and do

3:52whatever you want all day, I want you to

3:54leave the video now because this just

3:56isn't for you. This is just that's not

3:58how this works.

4:00I personally am working harder than ever

4:04right now, but it's different work. It's

4:08work that anybody can do if you

4:11understand the tools and use them to

4:13your ability.

4:16AI is your five talents. If you look at

4:1950 years ago, 100 years ago, the status

4:22of life that we're living now is so far

4:25beyond. And the amount of opportunity is

4:28unreal. Ridiculous opportunity. The

4:31amount of blessing we have in

4:33opportunity from God should make you so

4:36excited to work. You should look and

4:38say, "Wow, if I just work hard, I can

4:41get really rich. I can make a lot of

4:43money." And what should be an even

4:45bigger driver for you is I can make so

4:48much money. And that money can be a tool

4:50to change other people's lives.

4:53that money can be a tool to bless the

4:56people around me because if that money

4:58is just for you to consume and enjoy and

5:00be selfish with that is going to be an

5:02empty pit. It is going to run dry. That

5:05well will be dry.

5:08You need to be driving for the right

5:09reasons and you need to be inspired by

5:12the opportunity that God has given you.

5:14AI is your five talents. This is new

5:17opportunity. We're seeing what people

5:18were doing. You're probably on this

5:20video because you're seeing what I'm

5:21doing with it. I'm out here working

5:23really hard and I am making money

5:27and you can do the same thing. Now the

5:30difference is the kind of work has

5:33changed. The barrier to entry has

5:36dropped. You no longer have to be this

5:39super genius expert in technical

5:41analysis. You can speak English and

5:43speak your ideas and go so much further.

5:46You don't need to be some quantitative

5:48that knows how to code in Python. You

5:50just need to speak English about your

5:52ideas to an AI agent or AI system that's

5:55going to do all of the work for you. The

5:57barrier to entry is here. You just need

5:59to work hard, be inspired by what God

6:01has given you, and do it for the right

6:03reasons.

6:07Number two, my strategy isn't profitable

6:10or my win rate is 60%.

6:15When somebody tells me their win rate is

6:1860%.

6:20Your initial reaction to that might be,

6:22"Oh, that sounds pretty good." Or, "I

6:25win rate 90%."

6:27Oh, wow. That's pretty good. That means

6:30nothing on its own. That is irrelevant

6:33on its own. You need more context than

6:36just my run rate is 60% or my strategy

6:39isn't profitable.

6:41And the best example of this is the 2021

6:44memecoin peak.

6:47The win rate of the most successful

6:49traders in the 2021 memecoin peak

6:54was probably somewhere between 1% to 5%.

6:57Maybe even less because remember this

7:00was a time where you could put $20 in a

7:02coin, wake up overnight, and have 100k.

7:06But you had invested $20 into 500

7:08different coins and you just won once.

7:12So your win rate when you were the rich

7:14guy winning was 1%.

7:1899% of the time you lost. But the one

7:22that you won, the riskto-reward was so

7:24huge

7:26that you could kill it. Data in

7:29isolation is useless. If you tell me

7:31your win rate is 60%. I can't do

7:33anything with that. Okay, great. or how

7:34much are you making per trade? Because

7:36if you're risking 500 to make 50 bucks

7:38and your win rate's 60%, you suck.

7:40Sorry. Sorry. The numbers don't lie. But

7:43if you're making that much, risking 500

7:45bucks to make 50,

7:48got to figure something else out here

7:49because you're not going to get very

7:50far.

7:53And this goes into the proper structure

7:56because profs are structured in very

7:58unique ways. They force you to trade a

8:01certain way because there are profitable

8:03traders in live markets who will have a

8:0510% win rate. But when they win, they

8:07win big. They win 20 times the amount

8:09they risk. And you can do that on a live

8:12account. And it is profitable. And it's

8:14so profitable that it's not able to be

8:17done on most prop firms. That is why

8:20they are structured the way they are.

8:22You have to meet certain requirements.

8:23You have to follow consistency rules.

8:26Consistency rules are a pain and they

8:29have only showed up in the past one to

8:31two years because people were getting

8:33rich without them. People were blowing

8:35these accounts to the moon and taking

8:37huge payouts. So they added consistency

8:40rules. So the way you need to approach

8:42proper structures is you need to reverse

8:45engineer. You don't say let me find a

8:47strategy and then let me go train on a

8:49prof. You need to say what are the rules

8:52for me to pass the prof and get paid.

8:54Now, let me find a strategy that fits

8:56those rules.

9:01Number three,

9:03this is a bit of just free sauce, if you

9:06will. Live prices and executing trades.

9:11A lot of people ask me, how do you get

9:13live prices? You use a Trading View MCP

9:16bridge. An MCP bridge has been something

9:18created by Anthropic and it allows

9:20claude code to read external resources.

9:23And what this is doing, this is dipping

9:24into the HTML of Trading View because

9:27Trading View is an electron coded app

9:29and the live prices of assets are stored

9:32in the HTML of the Trading View app. If

9:34you've ever clicked inspect element on a

9:36website, that's where the live prices

9:38are at. The MCP bridge reads those live

9:40prices and then allows cloud code to

9:42read those and then you can do whatever

9:43you want from there. That's how I read

9:45my live prices. That's how I get my

9:46signals. That's how I place my trades.

9:49One of the ways that I place my trades,

9:52I can think of at least four different

9:55ways to place trades.

9:58And Claude is probably not going to

9:59place them for you immediately.

10:02You can do APIs, you can do Chrome

10:04control interfaces, you can do so many

10:05different ways of placing trades, and

10:06I've done them all.

10:09But odds are, if you've gotten that far

10:12and you've said, "Hey, Claude, place

10:13this trade." Claude has probably said,

10:16"I can't place this trade for you

10:17because it's against my policy." So, how

10:20do we get around that? How do we get

10:21around this pain of an issue?

10:24Claude will place a trade if you give it

10:27a formula to place it.

10:31If you say place a trade right now, it

10:33will say no. If you say place a trade

10:36when X, Y, and Z meet with this

10:39criteria,

10:41it is going to build a code that is

10:45going to just be an automatic trigger

10:47and will place it when that happens.

10:50That way, Claude is no longer making a

10:52decision, but it is building a solution

10:55for you that just runs. And that is how

10:58I place my trades. That's how I've

10:59passed my accounts, and that's how I'm

11:00working towards a payout right now. I

11:02back tested all these strategies and all

11:04these systems and now Claude has built

11:06these presets. So when price meets XYZ

11:11criteria, trade automatically executes

11:14with stop-loss here, take profit here,

11:16this amount of sizing only within this

11:18window, only within this asset. Boom.

11:20It's extremely clear. But if you try to

11:23tell Claude to place it right now, it's

11:25probably not going to do it.

11:28>> [snorts]

11:30>> Number four, this is a big one. This is

11:32this is so huge. You are not using the

11:35full potential of AI. And this is

11:38something that's changed in the past few

11:40years because

11:42[clears throat] when we look at AI a few

11:44years ago, I mean I like probably many

11:48of you who are still in school at least

11:50have used AI when you were in school.

11:51And if you were one of the earlier

11:53users, you can probably remember a time

11:55when you asked AI to do a task and it

11:57failed and it did a crappy job. It

12:00couldn't get the right answer. It

12:01couldn't figure it out or it kept

12:02getting it wrong.

12:05There was a joke for a while, but it was

12:07true. You could ask ChatGpt, "How many

12:09Rs are in strawberry?" And it would say

12:11zero.

12:13One, two, three. Chat GBT would say that

12:15there's zero Rs in the word strawberry.

12:18AI was the bottleneck. We would ask for

12:21these things and it couldn't complete

12:23them. It was not a good enough solution,

12:26a powerful enough model. Context window

12:29wasn't big enough. Training data wasn't

12:32big enough. Too much halluc too much

12:35hallucination and in some cases now

12:38ethical constraints, which there's ways

12:40to get around those.

12:44That's not the case anymore.

12:47It is no longer the case that AI is

12:49holding you back.

12:51Remember, AI is an amplifier and we're

12:53here now where your ability to

12:56communicate your ideas to artificial

12:58intelligence will dictate the degree of

13:00solutions that you get. If you can

13:02communicate well, you will get good

13:04solutions. If you communicate lazy,

13:07you're going to get lazy solutions. And

13:10the statistics of prop firms are that

13:1290% of people aren't passing and that

13:14another 90% of those people aren't

13:15getting paid. So you need to take that

13:18extra step and work harder with them.

13:21And that applies here to use the full

13:24potential of AI. I did this this past

13:28weekend on the holiday Labor Day with

13:30one of my students in Ocean AI. We did a

13:34back test

13:36and he came to me with a strategy and he

13:38said, "All right, let's back test the

13:39strategy now. All right." I said,

13:40"Sweet. Let's do it." So, we're going to

13:43take this one strategy. We're going to

13:44hook it up to historical data and we're

13:46going to run some simulations here.

13:47We're going to see what's our

13:49performance of the strategy and we're

13:51going to ask some extra questions

13:53because why not? AI strength is pattern

13:55recognition. Your strength is judgment

13:57and discretion. Use the pattern

13:59recognition part for your judgment and

14:01discretion.

14:03So, let's ask some additional questions

14:05to see if we can find some more because

14:06AI is only going to do what you tell it.

14:09So, if we have one strategy that we want

14:11to test, we might go to AI and we might

14:14ask for things like how does it perform

14:16monthtomonth,

14:19why not test it on another asset, too?

14:21It only takes an extra sentence. If

14:23we're testing on NQ, what's the harm in

14:25testing it on gold? All you have to say

14:27is test it on gold, too. Okay, that is

14:30such a big deal because we can just do

14:32that now. We can just speak and get that

14:34done.

14:36I remember what back testing used to

14:37look like. I would come home and I would

14:39be on my computer and I would spend an

14:41hour or two hours every night after

14:44school or after work and I would go

14:45trade by trade dragging my charts and

14:48drawing out the position tools and

14:49writing down notes and writing out the

14:51results of RR and you can get a 100

14:53trades in an afternoon

14:58which is unreal.

15:01So we have this strategy right and we

15:04say let's test on another asset too.

15:06that. So, we're going to take the

15:07strategy and we've already doubled our

15:09output by just saying NQ and gold. We've

15:12already doubled the amount of results

15:14and information we're going to get,

15:15which is awesome. Why don't we do all

15:18the futures? Now, we're up to 10.

15:22Now, we have 10xed the amount of output

15:25we're going to get simply because we

15:27asked another question.

15:31Now, let's go a step further, right? We

15:33have our strategy.

15:35Can't we ask AI to make strategies of

15:37its own and make variations? How does it

15:40perform on different time frames? How

15:43does it perform during news events? What

15:46if you add different filters of the most

15:48popular confluences? VWOP, EMA,

15:53trend lines. Why not? It takes one extra

15:56sentence and you're going to do what

15:58would take hundreds of hours.

16:02All because you asked another question.

16:06So this weekend we did this back test

16:09and what we ended up doing for context.

16:11I want to highlight this so much because

16:14this is what I mean when I say that AI

16:16is your five talents because this is

16:17unreal. I've back tested manually in my

16:21life probably around a thousand trades

16:24and it's taken hundreds if not thousands

16:26of hours to do so. It's taken a lot of

16:29work. This weekend with one prompt that

16:32took 20 to 30 minutes to write. Fable

16:345.1 on Claude Code Ultra Code. We back

16:38tested over a 100,000 trades on 500

16:43strategies.

16:49You're bound to find profitable edges.

16:50If you do that,

16:53you're bound to get the information

16:54because that's the work that nobody's

16:56willing to do. All you had to do was

16:58think a little bit harder and ask the

17:00right questions. Keep asking. AI is not

17:04the bottleneck. Your ability to ask and

17:07give AI the work. You can say come up

17:11with your own strategies. That's fine.

17:14You can say be creative and think

17:15deeply. That's fine. You should say be

17:18agentic because being agentic means that

17:20it's going to find its own problems to

17:22solve and take it further in ways that

17:24you might not even be able to think. If

17:26you think you're smarter than AI,

17:28you're probably not watching this video

17:30anymore.

17:35Ask more questions. Ask for more from AI

17:38because you're going to get more.

17:41AI is a super genius. You just need to

17:43ask it to do that for you.

17:48Number five, cloud versus cloud code.

17:54There's a lot of different models and

17:56it's changing super fast. So odds are if

17:58it's not within the two weeks that this

17:59video is released that you're watching

18:01it. Things have changed. Fable 5.1

18:04that's my CEO. I use that in Claude

18:07chat. I ask for it to build prompts for

18:10Claude code which I use for Opus 4.8

18:12because Opus 4.8 does not have as many

18:14of the ethical constrictions that Opus 5

18:18does. Opus 5 has such an ethical issue

18:21that the advertisement for Fable 5.1 was

18:24that it had 60% fewer false positives

18:28because Fable 5 and Opus 5 in particular

18:30were giving so many issues to people

18:32saying things like, "Oh, I'm not going

18:34to do this for you because this is a bad

18:35idea." Or, "I'm not going to back test

18:37because it's giving poor results."

18:43What do you mean? What do you mean

18:45you're not going to do what I ask? Opus

18:474.8 8 does a lot less of that. So Claude

18:51chat fable 5.1 CEO to manage at the top

18:54code monkeys opus 4.8 and lower because

18:58they're still going to give you really

18:59good results and they're not going to

19:02stop you from doing the things you want

19:03to do.

19:08Analysis paralysis. I do a lot of things

19:12with AI

19:14and the one thing that makes me

19:15successful with getting what I want is

19:18taking one thing and bringing it to the

19:20end. The first thing I do with my

19:22students is I say, "We're going to pick

19:24something and we're going to bring it

19:25home. We're going to get there before we

19:28do anything else." Because you've

19:31already thought of so many things you

19:33could do with AI. Notifications, back

19:36testing, live testing, automated

19:38executions, self-healing models. I've

19:40done all of those things and I did none

19:43of them at the same time. I picked one

19:46and I finished it and then I moved to

19:49the next thing.

19:51Golden egg syndrome is going to be

19:54exactly that where you're working

19:57towards something and you you wrote your

19:58first prompt and you're waiting on the

20:00results and then you're like, "Oh, what

20:01if I could do this thing also?" And then

20:04you totally forget and drop the one

20:05thing that you were doing and went and

20:06did something else.

20:09The most successful students in my

20:11community, the ones who have gotten

20:12payouts, the one who are passing

20:14accounts,

20:16they have picked a project and brought

20:18it home. That is how you win.

20:22And the final point which comes back to

20:25this point as well,

20:28data without implementing is

20:30entertainment.

20:34You can run a 100,000 trade back test

20:37today and you can have a blast doing it

20:40and you can love reading in the numbers

20:41and you can see the green and the red

20:43squares and the cool navy background and

20:45all these lines and all these charts and

20:47you wow this is awesome. Look at all

20:49this work I just did. Okay, great. Nice.

20:57What was it for?

21:01What was the goal?

21:04If you want to entertain yourself, you

21:06can do that with AI. You totally can.

21:10But if you are not going to take the

21:11next step,

21:14you are wasting your time.

21:19And you can do that. You can you can

21:21entertain yourself all you want. It's

21:22fun. I enjoy it.

21:25But if you actually want to succeed when

21:28you are done with a test, when you are

21:30done with the system, the objective is

21:33to make a profit.

21:36And if you read what AI gives you and

21:38you say, "Wow, that's cool, bro."

21:41And you do nothing with it,

21:44you were merely entertained.

21:48If you want results, you need to work

21:51for them. If you are lazy, AI will

21:54amplify that because it's going to do

21:55the work you want and then it's going to

21:57leave you on your own. If you have high

22:00agency and you bring things to the

22:02finish line, AI is going to amplify that

22:05by squashing the amount of time it

22:07takes.

22:08If you wanted tonight, you could grind

22:11out in 6 to 12 hours strategy back test,

22:15building a live testing system, and even

22:17hooking it up to trade on real accounts.

22:21You could grind it out fast.

22:24Would it be hard? Sure, of course it is.

22:29But you can do it. You just have to

22:32work.

22:34And the only way that I can understand

22:36to motivate you to work is to give you a

22:38purpose outside of yourself.

22:42Go for the car. That's lovely. I'm after

22:45a car for myself right now. I would love

22:47to get a nicer car. I drive a Honda

22:49Civic 2014. I would like to upgrade that

22:52car. I could, but that's another

22:54conversation.

23:00We are blessed to have an opportunity in

23:02our hands.

23:05We are blessed to be able to use AI to

23:08build amazing things and do things

23:10faster than anyone ever in history. That

23:14should motivate you in itself.

23:17And what should motivate you even

23:18further is you have the ability to bless

23:21the people around you. You can change

23:23the lives of the people around you.

23:27That is a purpose worth grinding for.

23:33I teach in my oceanfront AI mentorship

23:37how to fill in these blanks, what I

23:39would do in certain situations, how I

23:41connect the dots and the best decisions

23:44I make. and I hold people accountable

23:46and I say, "All right, let's take these

23:48next steps. Let's keep going. Let's keep

23:50pushing for the finish line.

23:53Let's get paid. That is the goal." If

23:57that's something you're interested in,

23:58the link down below is there to apply.

24:01But otherwise,

24:03if you take away nothing,

24:06take away that AI is your five talents.

24:10You have an opportunity. You've seen

24:12people using it.

24:14Take advantage of it.

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