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…
Category: Investments
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…
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…
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…
Oh Snap! I Got Lectured By AI On My Trades!
You’re not going to believe this but I got a condescending lecture by AI on my trading and worse yet, AI was right! The story started with the idea of buying QQQ but I rarely ever go online and execute a “buy” trade. When I enter a position, I prefer to get a discount either…
Built A Third Financial App – Japanese Yen or Silver?
I wanted to buy some Japanese Yen via a put ratio trade but the apps I’ve built so far are great but they scan the entire market and give me the gold and weren’t giving me the yen (pun intended). So I decided to get Gemini to build me a new app that would allow…
Stock Market Valuations In 2026
I have been worried about stock market valuations for quite some time. So much so that I predicted my own layoff back in September of 2023 not because I am clairvoyant but because I’m old and have lived through enough recessions and stock market shocks that I ought to know better by now. I was…
My First AI Driven Trades
As I’ve written about creating a new app to help me find net credit collars on equities, I finally decided to trust AI with a couple of trades. Unfortunately the market isn’t static so what you see on a report is likely to change quickly. I had expected to trade the items in highlight in…
New Financial App: Options Put Ratio Finder
I’m sitting on the recliner in my house watching Wisconsin playing Villanova and getting bored so I decided to check out some put spread options for fun and then it hit me! I can build a new app for a YouTube video I saw a while back from Options with Davis. If you want to…