{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ditching Hourly","title":"Dave Mabe - AI Overconfidence in Systematic Trading","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/160c07bf\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3485,"description":"Systematic day trader and former CTO Dave Mabe joined me on Ditching Hourly to explain where AI helps experienced traders and where its overconfidence creates expensive risks.\n\nWe cover systematic versus discretionary trading, automated trade execution, backtesting, Claude Code workflows, unit testing, AI-generated strategy ideas, the danger of building complex financial software without domain expertise, and how to turn expert judgment into useful guardrails and questions instead of pretending AI can supply one perfect answer.\nChapters\n00:01 — Systematic Trading Basics\n04:57 — How AI Entered Dave's Workflow\n07:45 — Unit Tests and AI-Assisted Development\n12:00 — From Manual Approval to Auto Mode\n13:34 — Auto Mode and the Trade Client\n18:39 — The Strategy Cruncher and Backtesting\n22:10 — Trading Versus Investing\n26:22 — Turning Market Patterns into Strategies\n29:03 — AI's Dangerous Overconfidence\n33:45 — The Backtesting Software Trap\n37:14 — Operational AI Inside MabeKit\n40:40 — Encoding Expert Judgment\n44:38 — Guidance Instead of Perfect Answers\n50:10 — AI Adoption in Trading\n54:33 — Experts, AI, and the Road Ahead\nAbout Dave Mabe\nDave has traded systematic day-trading models for 25 years and runs roughly 20 to 25 models each day. He was formerly CTO of Trade Ideas and later started MabeKit, software for short-term traders who want to move into systematic trading. Learn more at davemabe.com, or see his free backtesting course at betterbacktesting.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NCUVrsmlcYseU9x7dN1dnT4q3rVJ5q27OIKrcXCPJrM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMjY2/ZjU5OTA5OWI3YzI2/MzdiODJlMmUwZWY1/NTJjZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}