Can AI Find a Trading Edge That Survives?
AI can code a trading bot. The harder question is whether an idea survives unseen data, fees, slippage, and execution delays. I’m Dylan Siegel, founder of QuantDev.ai. This short introduces the quantitative finance research process I want to show here: turn market activity into testable ideas, backtest them against unseen data and realistic trading costs, and learn from what fails. The trades, candidate strategies, and backtest sequence on screen are…









