
Most trading bots do the obvious — NVIDIA earnings beat, buy NVIDIA. By the time they act, the edge is gone. This agent thinks differently. It uses second-order reasoning — when NVIDIA beats earnings, it asks who else benefits? and trades ARM (chip architecture) and TSMC (manufacturer) before the crowd catches up. What it does: Monitors 6 live RSS news feeds continuously Uses Groq LLaMA 3.3 70B to reason about market implications Passes every trade through 10 intelligence layers: sentiment scoring, confidence thresholds, volatility checks, position sizing, stop-loss, brokerage fee simulation, portfolio awareness, and more Executes trades autonomously on Kraken xStocks Logs every decision with full reasoning — why it bought, why it skipped, what sentiment score triggered it Tech Stack: Groq LLaMA 3.3 70B · Kraken xStocks · Yahoo Finance (live prices) · Flask + JS dashboard · Persistent JSON storage Live results at time of recording: Portfolio $10,058 · P&L +$58.84 after fees · 4 active positions (NVDA, ARM, AAPL, AMD) Built solo by Varun — AI Agent Olympics · Milan AI Week 2026 🔗 github.com/AVarun3204/trading-agent
19 May 2026