Hey. Beginner question. [AI Trading]

So if trading is basically a technical analysis of the chart. Why do we have to learn it, can't the Ai do all the stuff for us and we just pour in money?

The fundamental problem is the “AI” you’re thinking of isn’t AI. It’s a LLM or Large Language Model. There’s no intelligence. It can't come up with any new ideas or think for itself, it runs off a pre-programmed model. It doesn’t think for itself, generate original ideas, or make autonomous decisions. Instead, it processes input and generates responses based on patterns and correlations it learned from massive amounts of text data during training. LLMs are essentially highly sophisticated prediction engines—they excel at understanding and mimicking patterns but lack true reasoning, consciousness, or the ability to form goals.

And I’d argue more intelligence is a downside to automated trading. Then you get