I ran an LLM trading agent 24/7 for a month. 107 trades later, I'm down 1%, and it didn't even fully follow my own strategy.
Curious how people here are actually using AI in their trading workflow right now. Is it mostly for research and data gathering, or are people letting it make real decisions?
Some background: I've been trading for about 2 years now, still very much a beginner, mostly spot, and recently started looking into automation. I tried a third party platform where you write out your strategy and pick an LLM model, and it claims to run a 24/7 agent for you on Hyperliquid, with the LLM analyzing market conditions to decide entries and exits.
Since setting the agent up on 7/24, it's completed 107 trades total. Mixed wins and losses, currently sitting at about 1% down, mostly eaten by fees rather than bad calls.
The bigger issue for me is that the LLM seems to hallucinate or act on its own judgment sometimes. It's not executing my strategy exactly as written, which has made me pretty uneasy about trusting the platform. I genuinely can't tell if the underperformance is because my strategy itself isn't good, or if using an LLM to actually execute trades is just fundamentally unreliable right now.
So I'm trying to figure out if AI is actually useful for trading (stocks or crypto), or if I just haven't found the right way to apply it yet. How is everyone here actually using it in practice?