November 12, 2026
Dave Mabe - AI Overconfidence in Systematic Trading
Systematic day trader, former CTO, and MabeKit creator Dave Mabe joined me on Ditching Hourly to explain where AI helps experienced traders and where its overconfidence creates expensive risks.
Chapters
- Systematic Trading Basics
- How AI Entered Dave’s Workflow
- Unit Tests and AI-Assisted Development
- From Manual Approval to Auto Mode
- Auto Mode and the Trade Client
- The Strategy Cruncher and Backtesting
- Trading Versus Investing
- Turning Market Patterns into Strategies
- AI’s Dangerous Overconfidence
- The Backtesting Software Trap
- Operational AI Inside MabeKit
- Encoding Expert Judgment
- Guidance Instead of Perfect Answers
- AI Adoption in Trading
- Experts, AI, and the Road Ahead
Guest’s Bio
Dave Mabe has traded systematic day-trading models for 25 years and runs roughly 20 to 25 fully automated models each day. He was formerly CTO of Trade Ideas and later started MabeKit, software for short-term traders who want to move into systematic trading. Learn more at davemabe.com.
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Yours,
—J