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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

AI Trading Trap

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

AI-powered trading is the latest shiny object designed to make investors feel smarter while quietly encouraging more trading (and more profits for platforms). Don and Tom break down why letting an “AI agent” execute your personal market theories is just automated speculation—no edge, no accountability, and no evidence it works. They contrast this with decades of data showing that even professionals fail to beat simple index investing. The episode also tackles a listener question on Roth conve...

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0:00.0

Your guides to a really great financial future.

0:09.0

Tom and Don are talking real money.

0:12.6

Hi everybody.

0:13.5

I'm Don.

0:14.1

That's Tom.

0:14.7

This is the Talking Real Money podcast.

0:16.2

And as always, we're going to share a little information about something in the financial world that we found interesting or stupid or helpful or inane or, you know, whatever.

0:30.7

It's just something that we thought you should know about and usually avoid because most things that we talk about are things that people want you to do,

0:40.3

not for your benefit, but for theirs.

0:42.8

And here's another fine example of a really ridiculous idea

0:48.4

that will gain some traction for a while because it's got the buzz phrase in it,

0:53.5

but is probably not a good idea for you.

0:56.4

And that is using artificial intelligence as a means by which to play the stock market.

1:07.3

Do we like it or do we not?

1:11.3

This one really rubs me the wrong way because it's such a blatant attempt to

1:18.0

face off against, you know, Robin Hood, right?

1:22.7

Which has, you know, been the leader in dumb ideas.

1:26.2

Sorry, Robin Hood.

1:26.9

Dumb trading, yeah.

1:27.8

Dumb trading and getting all excited about a win.

1:31.2

Did they show fireworks when they show a loss to?

1:34.5

This is a company called Public.

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