AI does it again and saves me money, well over $1000 so let’s discuss what happened. The problem was over the years, we’ve added a ton of devices to our home network. In addition to cell phones, tablets, Apple TVs, Roku’s, security cameras, computers and wifi enabled appliances, the network was getting over worked. Like…
Author: Rich Slick
Built A Financial Dashboard And Credit Card Spend/Rewards Dashboard
I don’t know how Quicken/Intuit will survive, in less than an hour, I built my own financial dashboard and credit card spend and rewards dashboard and it did everything right whereas Quicken made endless errors last time I used it. Financial Dashboard I have a ton of bank accounts and getting a full picture of…
Creating Synthetic Bonds That Beat SPY?
I entered a trade today to test a theory. The premise is around creating a synthetic bond using stocks and option collars. I entered the trade above and then asked ChatGPT to do a comparison. AI Response Below is a clean, apples-to-apples risk-adjusted comparison between your RBLX collar, 1-year T-bills, and SPY, using standard finance…
Built A Bucket List Travel App In Less Than An Hour!
Before you read this post keep ONE thing in mind. I am not a web app developer nor am I an expert in computer programming. I am simply sitting on my recliner while I watch TV in the background and having a conversation with Gemini on my laptop sitting on my lap. This started as…
Gemini Is Amazing, Getting Paid To Wait
I continue to tweak my financial apps and now I am adding some “quality of life” features to them to make things even easier for me. The latest iteration of my put ratio application is down below with some enhancements. I would like to pick up some QQQ but there is no way I am…
First AI Driven Trade – Outcome On January 30
Here are the executions of the first batch of AI driven trades. Back on January 2, I entered two trades based on AI recommendations. The goal was to earn ~1% return within a 30 day window and have zero or minimal losses. Here is the screen shot of the executed trades. Note that the values…
New Year’s Actions!
I’m not going to write a resolution post because without action, resolutions are hopeful activities. So I’m going to write about my New Year’s actions. I’ve already done some of these things and I am definitely going to do the rest soon. Subscriptions (Canceling & Adding) The most impactful thing to my day to day…
Tweaking My AI Apps
I’ve now had a few weeks with my AI built financial trading apps and I am now tweaking and slowly upgrading the capability. I have discovered that AI was giving me some unusual option trades and they were so intriguing that I’ve now changed my mindset around what I was trying to do because AI…
AI & I Are Building Firefox Plugins Now!
After writing a few apps with AI, my productivity and investing prowess has gone through the roof! I wanted to keep increasing my productivity and workflow so I decided I needed a Firefox plugin for an annoying problem. Problem Statement: I read a ton of financial news daily and often these articles will have ticker…
My Taxable Brokerage Portfolio For 2026
Driven in part by AI helping me optimize my investment portfolio, I am updating the ETFs in my taxable brokerage account for 2026. As a high income earner, taxation is a significant issue and driver for me in how I invest my money. Below is a table I created with AI to explain some of…