My sentiments exactly.

I would like to trade the time spent giving away ideas to AIs for time spent in nature.

Actually it's a well executed front for a build-me-a-technical-trading-execution-package-as-a-service scheme. Not sure if that's a thing. Surely you'd just use an AI if you could describe what you wanted? Articulating it effectively implies familiarity required to build. Handing it back to a human seems ... obtuse.

you'd be surprised how inefficient the markets actually are in practice. for example, while i was trading indian options, implied vols were consistently higher than realised vol for the very simple fact that retail loved to buy options and there wasn't enough capital among the risk-tolerant market makers to absorb all that flow. so a sufficiently informed retail trader could profit by simply selling options in those overpriced names.

it really is similar to the argument for why startups exist at all -- if the opportunity was real, why hasn't big tech already absorbed it? in practice, seems like it's either because the market is just so large that everyone can have a slice of the pie, or the pie is so small that the titans just cbs (e.g. cross-exchange arbitrage in crypto was a lucrative opportunity for a while -- an obvious and easily engineerable strategy).

hey appreciate the feedback! how useful was it for you?