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There are over 4,000 US stocks. And in your arrogance, you think you can watch them all.

Or worse. You keep your eyes on one or two of your “favorites”.

You aren’t Mike Ross or Jimmy Neutron. You cannot (and should not) be trying to watch every single stock in the market at all times.

Let artificial intelligence help you.

The Problem With Traditional Alerts

Naively, you might think, “artificial intelligence? I don’t need that; I have alerts enabled in my brokerage”.

Well guess what. Traditional alerts are not enough.

Pic: The Robinhood UI for configuring a single alert

Take Robinhood alerts, for example. You get notified for what, when the stock crosses a 50 day moving average?

Why does that matter?

Why should you care?

You shouldn’t. Basic technical indicators aren’t going to be your key to financial freedom. Every single profitable trader knows that other factors, such as risk management, sentiment, and fundamentals, are more important.

Moreover, configuring these alerts for every single stock is extremely time-consuming.

You’re telling me that you’re going to configure a generic “moving average alerts” for a list of your favorite stocks manually?

How are you even going to go about finding new stocks?

And you wonder why your portfolio is down today.

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help

If you’re sick of losing money in a bull market, you’ll use AI to help you configure more customized stock alerts for your favorite stocks. Here’s how.

Step 0: Create a Free NexusTrade Account

Before we begin, we’ll first have to showcase the AI platform that will empower us to make better decisions – NexusTrade.

Pic: The NexusTrade Platform

We’ll show how NexusTrade allows us to find stocks, build watchlists, and deploy customizable alerts that the average brokerage couldn’t dream of.

This includes the ability to deploy algorithmic trading strategies with the click of a button.

Here’s how.

Step 1: Build Multiple Watchlists of Stocks

We’ll first use Aurora, the NexusTrade AI, to build watchlists of stocks. For example, we can say complex queries such as:

Query for all stocks that are up 80% for the year, up 150% for the two year, and have a market cap above $15 billion. Sort by market cap descending

Pic: Using AI to query for stocks that are rallying

In this example, I queried for stocks using the Ultra-Powerful O1 model, which is capable of thinking before responding. This thinking allows the model to be extremely accurate, even when compared to traditionally powerful models like Claude’s Sonnet and GPT-4.

While the screenshot cuts off the response, you can read the full response and conversation by clicking here. The full response and conversation

After finding our list of stocks, we can transform it into a watchlist easily.

Pic: Transforming insights into a watchlist

By adding these stocks to a watchlist, we will never lose track of them. NexusTrade will automatically:

• Send daily or weekly news alerts about these stocks (depending on our notification preferences)
• Segregate our lists of stocks depending on their characteristics
• Build trading alerts and algorithmic trading alerts based on these watchlists

As I mentioned, we’re not limited to just one. We can, for example, decide to build another watchlist based on fundamentals.

Pic: Saving the old watchlist and building another

But most importantly, we can transform these insights into alert notifications, test these strategies in real-time, and deploy these as algorithmic trading strategies.

3. Transforming Watchlists Into Automated Alerts and Trading Strategies

Once we have the groups of stocks that we want to watch for a long-time, we can very easily transform these into automated trading rules.

For a novice investor, we might want to stick with trading alerts. These alerts will notify us whenever any of our rules trigger.

To create an alert, we’ll say the following.

Create a strategy for the booming stocks. I want to alert if any of these stocks are down 1 standard deviation below their 30 day simple average, 1 SD below their 7 day simple moving average, or 0.5 standard deviations below their 365 day exponential moving average

Pic: Using AI to create automated alert notifications

This is an excellent starter point for beginners who aren’t used to market moves and don’t have experience buying and selling stocks. The alerts act as a “watch out” reminder that doesn’t commit you into a particular play.

But for our experienced investors, we have something more powerful.

Using these LLMs, we can create algorithmic trading strategies using nothing but plain English. For example, with a shortlist of stocks, I can say:

Create the following strategy with all of these stocks.

Pic: Creating trading strategies using natural language

Within minutes, our strategies are created and a backtest is automatically run. In minutes, we get real insights on the performance of our strategy. We can adjust the parameters, add new stocks, or make new rules altogether. All using natural language.

Once we’re satisfied with our backtest performance, we can test these strategies on historical data and even deploy it live to see how it would perform in real time.

Pic: Creating a paper-trading portfolio from our strategy

Then, just as easily, we can connect our account with Alpaca Connect our account with Alpaca, and literally trade automatically while we sleep.

Pic: Adding these strategies to a REAL portfolio

With this set of tools, we are incapable of missing another trade again. We can find the best stocks according to our strategy, get daily email alerts about our watchlist in the news, get notifications whenever it’s the right time to buy, and even launch fully automated trading strategies.

You can’t tell me this isn’t revolutionary.

Concluding Thoughts

AI is making it easy for ordinary investors to become Wall Street quants. Using artificial intelligence, we can keep our eye on the entire market; something we quite literally couldn’t do before until now.

There’s no excuse for you to not be a successful trader in 2025. It’s never been easier to find new stocks and test out ideas. Even five years ago, you had to be a coding expert and a math whizz to do anything productive with algorithmic trading, and now you can do it from your phone?

Either make an effort to be better or be satisfied with your mediocrity. Sign up today and never miss a trade ever again.

The choice is up to you.