Building AI Trading Agents with Browser Use

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In this series, I show you how to use the open source Browser Use project to create a trading agent capable of using Interactive Brokers and various financial research tools and social sites like Perplexity, Reddit, and StockTwits.

Full Source Code:

Agent Prompts: https://github.com/hackingthemarkets/ai-trading-agent
IBKR Docker Container: https://github.com/hackingthemarkets/interactive-brokers-web-api
Browser Use: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

Table of Contents

0:00 Introduction: Browser Use Project
2:25 Demo: AI Agents in action: running a stock scanner
4:33 Demo: AI Agent places a limit order (WARNING: very risky!)
5:38 Demo: AI Agent builds a watchlist from a Stocktwits user feed and copy trades
7:45 Demo: AI Agent uses Perplexity Finance as a research tool, extracts Tesla earnings reaction
11:38 Capture an animated gif of what the agent did in its session for monitoring
12:45 Checking out the source code from my Github
14:22 Browser use overview, packages and dependencies
17:22 Code walkthrough of “Hello World” of browser use agent
20:02 Environment variables, OpenAI API Key settings
21:55 Running the agent, capturing a reddit comment
23:10 You can use open source models and give it custom API calls / functions to use
24:30 Connecting it to your brokerage / exchange
24:58 Getting the Interactive Brokers Web API docker container / source code
26:38 Flask App Python code walkthrough
27:58 Bringing up the docker container
28:41 Authenticating, paper trading vs. live trading
30:11 Making web apps useable by AI agents
30:34 Demo: showing the agent how to scan for high dividend yield stocks
34:15 Demo: copying trading a stocktwits user
36:33 Unlike OpenAI Operator, open source doesn't prevent risky transactions

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