Florent Poux
Co-founder and CTO of Obside
Florent Poux is co-founder and CTO of Obside. He leads the engineering and technology behind Obside's AI copilot, market-data systems, backtesting infrastructure, and automated trading agents.
Areas of focus
- Artificial intelligence
- Software engineering
- Trading automation
- Market-data infrastructure
Recent articles and reviews
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All-in-One Trading Platform: Strategy Building, Backtesting and Execution in One Place
What an all-in-one trading platform actually needs to cover — strategy building, backtesting, paper trading, and live execution — and how to evaluate the platforms that claim the label.
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10 Best Seeking Alpha Alternatives in 2026 (Free and Paid)
Seeking Alpha is built for reading research, not acting on it. Here are ten alternatives compared by the job they actually do: ratings, screening, portfolio tracking, and automation.
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Free Trading Signal Bot: What Works, What's a Scam, and What to Use Instead
Most free signal bots are marketing funnels or outright scams. Here is how the free-signal economy really works, the red flags, and how to generate your own signals from rules you control.
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Look-Ahead Bias in Backtesting: How to Detect It Before It Costs You Money
Look-ahead bias makes bad strategies look brilliant by letting them peek at future data. Here is how it sneaks into backtests, the warning signs, and a practical audit checklist.
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Python Trading Bot: How to Build One, What It Takes, and When Not To
What building a Python trading bot really involves — libraries, data, broker APIs, and the operational grind nobody mentions — plus when a no-code alternative is the smarter engineering call.
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Small Account Trading Strategy: A Realistic Plan for Accounts Under $10,000
How to trade a small account without blowing it up: rules that survive the PDT restriction, position sizing that fits a four-figure balance, and automation that removes the most expensive mistakes.
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Obside vs Capitalise.ai: Which Should Automate Your Trading?
Both let you automate trading in plain English, but they solve different problems. Capitalise.ai is a free rule engine that lives inside partner brokers; Obside is an AI copilot that sits on top of your existing accounts. Here is an honest comparison from the team behind Obside.
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Obside vs Composer: AI Copilot or Symphony Brokerage?
Composer is a US brokerage where you build rule-based 'symphonies'; Obside is an AI copilot that automates the brokerage accounts you already have. The team behind Obside compares both honestly — including the cases where Composer is the better pick.