Dec 31, 2021What is intrinsic value?In short, intrinsic value is a measurement of what a company is worth. It’s important to note that this is not the same as the stock price, as a company will often either be undervalued or overvalued. “Price is what we pay. Value is what we get.” Understanding the difference…Investing3 min readInvesting3 min read
Dec 31, 2021Mindful Trader vs Formula StocksWhether you are new to investing in the stock market or have been trading stocks for decades, if you want to make money in the long term you need a strategy. There are thousands of stock investment strategies out there, and it can be extremely difficult to pick one. While…Investing6 min readInvesting6 min read
Jun 19, 2020Danger to all RobinhoodersIf you’ve ever bought stocks on the trading platform Robinhood or you just buy trending stocks in general this article could potentially save you a lot of money! Robinhood has this little section called “Top Movers”. This tells you which stocks are having the biggest swings upwards or downwards. An…Robin Hood9 min readRobin Hood9 min read
Jun 18, 2020Why 80% of Day Traders Lose MoneyI recently came across a very scary statistic from one of the bigger public trading platforms. An analysis of trading-platform data shows that 80% of day traders are unprofitable over the course of a year According to the stock platform Etoro, they found that a whopping 80% of day traders…Stock Market7 min readStock Market7 min read
Sep 11, 2019How to beat the stock market at any timeIt’s undeniable that we have seen a lot of discussions lately about the current state of the economy, talking about this upcoming “looming” recession and what to do when the stock market drops in price. One of the most common questions I hear is “Should I be investing my money…Investing7 min readInvesting7 min read
May 18, 2019Gold and Silver as an Effective Portfolio HedgeIn the summer of 2019 the stock market has put in an impressive 10-year run. Since we started Weekly Stock Tip, we have experienced a fabulous run of +1,916%. If you are not familiar with it, it is an artificial intelligence-based method of selecting stocks using business analytics. At this…Stock Market2 min readStock Market2 min read
Dec 30, 2016200 days of codeIn June 2016 I started at a code school called The Iron Yard in Austin, TX. I set out to get as much out of it as possible, as a result I spend 90–100 hours a week just coding away, and when I looked at my GitHub afterwards, there was…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Dec 23, 2016Making a honeycomb pattern in Javascript and ScssTools used: React, Javascript, JQuery, Lodash I recently redid my portfolio site http://markdid.it and I wanted to do something a little bit different for how to showcase the skills and libraries I use to build websites. I came up with this concept: A honeycomb pattern of the things I use…Web Development4 min readWeb Development4 min read
Dec 11, 2016Is there a better magic formula?You may be familiar with Joel Greenblatt’s bestseller “The little book that beats the market”. Greenblatt’s book is a delight to read and a very good primer indeed to value investing. In the book he makes an interesting case for a very simple investment formula that combines quality and price…Investing5 min readInvesting5 min read
Nov 12, 2016Creating an AI (step 1: NLP)A little pre-story: I recently set out to create a chatbot from scratch. There are plenty of chatbots out there like Siri, Corsara, Alexa etc. But these all have 1 major thing in common. They are geared towards being “assistants”. Thus, they pretty much only do question / answer type…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
