💰 Day 17 building an investing tool from scratch.
If you buy a company in the middle of a merger and the deal falls through, you're left with that company. So you’d better know what you’re buying.
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💰 Day 17 building an investing tool from scratch.
If you buy a company in the middle of a merger and the deal falls through, you're left with that company. So you’d better know what you’re buying.
💰 Day 14 building an investment tool from scratch.
There’s been a bit of a pause for a few days while I spent time on RMW, let my agents work on the backend, and became a Costco member.
Anyway, we’re back.
💰 Day 13 building an investment tool from scratch.
What am I working on now?
Mainly distribution.
I’m working on the SEO pages while the backend moves forward (what a surprise), and thinking about ways to distribute the product.
💰 Day 9 building an investment tool from scratch.
Today's update is a bit more boring haha
I'm still working on the data pipeline and improving the website UX.
💰 Day 7 building an investment tool from scratch
The machine is moving forward and we’ve got a lot more done. Production is speeding up.
Once you’re able to nail the primitives, the design tokens and a few basic rules, pages come together like hotcakes.
💰 Building an investment tool from scratch
Day 6 of developing Tracking Alpha
We’re making progress on the design. Dark mode is winning.
💰 Building an investment tool from scratch
Day 2 of developing Tracking Alpha
First things first: knowing which merger arbitrage deals are live in the US at any given time.
Finding them is easy. They all go through the SEC and get published on EDGAR.
My new project 👇
I’ve wanted to build a tool for investors for a while, but I didn’t want to make the usual thing.
I didn’t want to build another portfolio management tool or another TIKR redesign.
I wanted to make something a bit more original 👀
I'm moving back to Spain 🇪🇸
For those of you who missed yesterday's big news: over the next few months, I'm leaving my job in Switzerland and moving back to Spain to work on my projects full time.
I have too many ideas and too much to do. And not enough time.
💎 List of 500 high-quality companies 💎
I’ve added a ranking of quality companies to FMM, plus a simulated strategy to see how a "quality index" based on this ranking would have performed.... it does pretty well 👀
I think you’re going to like this a lot :)
Completely free
PS: it’s still a bit beta, so I’d really appreciate your feedback