Building an AI-Powered Quantitative Trading System with Hermes Agent and IBKR How I set up a multi-signal ETF trading bot that runs on autopilot — and the 7 things that broke along the way I wanted a system that watches the market 24/7, analyzes technical indicators across multiple ETFs, and executes trades automatically. No manual chart-checking. No emotional decisions. Just cold, calculated si
Confession: I’m not a walking dictionary. If you test me on textbook IT definitions, I might fail. After transitioning through Law and Banking into Tech, I’ve realized that terminology is often just a high-tech "smoke screen" for professional ego. But for many of us, the problem is deeper: it's about the language of logic itself. In my first year of Law school, I spent nights memorizing the "Theor
Most trading fee calculators show you two numbers: the dollar amount and the percentage of notional. Both are correct. Neither is useful. Here's the problem. Say you're trading Bitcoin perpetuals on Bybit. Taker fee is 0.055% each side. You buy $10,000 notional. Entry fee: $5.50 Exit fee: $5.50 Round trip: $11.00 Does that matter? Impossible to say without knowing one more number: how much are you