Alexander LorenzoCoinPicks, CoinPicks · Founder & Chief Investment Officer CoinPicks Capital 👇🏾This strategy made me 8 million dollars

Run Your Own AI Trader Without Paying $3,000 A Month

2 Oct 2026 · 2 min

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In this video Alexander Lorenzo explains why running a fully autonomous AI crypto‑trading agent is financially prohibitive – the research component alone can cost $400‑$500 per day, translating to roughly $3,000 a month for a $100k portfolio. To make the service affordable, his team separates the expensive coin‑research function into a centrally hosted “smart agent” that continuously discovers and ranks coins. Users receive an “execution file” that they run on their own cloud infrastructure; this executor connects to a beacon and autonomously places buy and sell orders on the user’s behalf, satisfying legal requirements that the user’s system make the final trade decisions. Because the execution side is simple (just buying and selling), its cost can be driven down dramatically, with a target of about $10 per day, depending on trade frequency. The overall architecture aims to keep sophisticated research while dramatically reducing the per‑user execution expense.

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Listen, everybody needs to listen. For you to run your own agent, it would be like $3,000 a month. You could run an autonomous agent and unprofitable, but with real sophistication to where it's actually researching coins, it's like $400 to $500 a day, which I'm sure none of you want to pay, right? If I gave you hosting privileges to run your own autonomous agent, you're spending crazy amounts of money. Even at $100 a day for you to run your own agent, it would be like $3,000 a month. So if you had a $100,000 portfolio, you're losing $3,000 to credits. It's not sustainable. So what we did is we have a really smart agent to where we cover the cost. We have a really smart AI agent. We cover the cost. It's autonomously researching coins, finding coins, assessing risk, and assessing potential. Every day at 6 AM, it's going to shoot out a list of the best coins according to risk and according to potential. You will connect to that list You'll— we're going to give you something called an execution file, which you'll find here. Connect my AI instead of my trader. You're going to get an executor file. The file is going to be ran on your cloud. You're going to connect to the beacon and your AI is going to run autonomously. So your AI is going to autonomously buy and sell on your own computer. Legally, this is what has to happen. There's no way around it where you're making your own decisions, buy, sells, etc., etc. But it's, it's basically submitting to the smart one. We don't know the cost, but we know it's significantly cheaper than $500 a day. It depends on how many trades your agent makes. It's unpredictable because every agent is different. But our goal is to get it down to like $10 a day, which we can. We don't need to run a smart agent to buy and sell. We don't. Actually, it doesn't need to be smart. The hard part about it is the actual finding of the coins. That's the expensive hard part. So the execution is just go buy and sell.