In the 47th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Robert Grzesik, CEO of LumiWealth and the mind behind BotSpot—a cutting-edge AI platform that lets you “vibe-code” your own trading strategies. Forget the clunky Bloomberg terminals and line-by-line coding. BotSpot is positioning itself as the Lovable of trading: a conversational, AI-powered assistant that builds, backtests, and deploys strategies directly to your broker through secure APIs.

Robert walks us through his journey from teaching finance students on a trading floor, to building software companies, to being an early employee at Voyager (once a billion-dollar Coinbase competitor). He explains how the rise of large language models transformed his vision into a tool where anyone—not just coders—can design bots that trade options, stocks, or even biotech plays based on real-world signals like clinical trials.

We tackle the big questions head-on:

• Risk vs. Reward: How this startup differentiates from scammy robo-investors
• Money Flow: Where your cash actually goes, and why doesn’t BotSpot touch it
• Security & Trust: How your brokerage account stays protected even while bots execute trades.
• Innovation: From discrete rules-based strategies to wild predictive models powered by Perplexity AI.
• Benefits for Traders:
  • Model trades with backtesting across years of data.
  • Use a simple, intuitive chat-style interface—no coding required.
  • Deploy bots seamlessly to your existing broker accounts.
  • Explore pre-built strategies in a marketplace or customize your own.
  • Gain an “analyst on demand” without paying hedge fund prices.

The conversation shifts from skepticism to genuine excitement, highlighting why BotSpot may be one of the most intriguing tools in the wild west of FinTech GPT. Whether you’re an experienced trader, a skeptic wary of crypto-hype, or just someone curious about the future of AI in finance, this episode presents an intriguing way the LLMs can be used to help make your investing easier, and even fun.

The Guest

Robert Grzesik is the CEO and Lead Instructor at LumiWealth, a fintech education platform focused on algorithmic trading and investing. With over 25 years of experience in software development — spanning languages like Python, JavaScript, C, C++, Go, and Ruby — he has built trading systems that handle everything from equities and options to crypto and forex. He holds a Master’s in Finance (Schulich) and has prior roles in fintech firms such as Voyager and Greystone, bringing deep domain expertise to LumiWealth’s mission of teaching traders to build, backtest, and deploy automated strategies.

The Platform

BotSpot is LumiWealth’s AI-powered platform that lets users turn natural-language ideas into live trading bots—no coding required. You can backtest strategies on historical data, deploy them live to trade automatically, and monitor performance in real time. 

Resources

• LumiWealth: https://lumiwealth.com/ 
• BotSpot: https://botspot.trade/ 

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