Recap of the “Let’s Talk Evolution” podcast with Jiri Pik, Ernie Chan, and Jared Broad on how AI amplifies hedge-fund workflows—alpha, risk, and development—plus “input engineering” and adoption hurdles.
Books
How AI is Transforming Quant Trading – Insights from the Quantopian Book Conversation
Recap of Quantopian’s Oct 21, 2025 webinar with Jiri Pik, Ernie Chan, and Jared Broad: practical AI trading lessons, a QuantConnect live demo, and career advice.
Coding the Markets: AI Innovations and FinTech Career Insights (Webinar Recap)
NTU Singapore webinar recap with Jiri Pik, Ernie Chan, and QuantConnect’s Jared Broad: AI trading, fintech careers, and why judgment + reliability beat hype (slides).
Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect, and AWS – Now Available!
Now available: Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect & AWS—20+ AI trading algorithms with GitHub code, covering ML, DL, RL, LLMs, and risk.
Beyond the Crystal Ball: Perfect-Foresight Bitcoin Trading on QuantConnect
Explore a “perfect foresight” Bitcoin strategy on QuantConnect—an upper-bound benchmark that buys only when tomorrow’s close beats fees—plus copy-paste research code and results (BTC vs SPY).
Jiri Pik’s New Book “Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect and AWS”
Announcing Wiley’s Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect & AWS: 20+ worked AI trading strategies with full code, a structured workflow, and expert endorsements.
Why You Should Never Join the AWS Community Builders Program
A critique of the AWS Community Builders program: why it can resemble employment, delivers low value, rewards marketing over judgment, and may block careers.
On Books Reading
Why read books and how to do it well: benefits, what to read, Kindle workflow, tracking your library with Book Connect, plus digests and audiobooks.
Exploring Code of Hands-On Financial Trading w/ Python with DataSpell
How to explore the Hands-On Financial Trading with Python codebase using JetBrains DataSpell—an IntelliJ-based Jupyter IDE with smarter assistance, interactivity, and debugging vs JupyterLab.
Jiri Pik’s New Book “Hands-On Financial Trading with Python”
Announcing Hands-On Financial Trading with Python (Packt, 2021): Zipline & PyFolio backtesting, market data sources, and full code on GitHub.