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
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs
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