Something that always fascinated me was trading. I remember being 15 and seeing all these apparently successful people on the internet talking about trading. Back then I tried to become a trader myself, but it was a disaster; I got really stressed (and obsessed) and I lost all my savings trying to catch any market moves. So I came to the conclusion that it wasn't for me... Until now.
A couple of months ago, I found myself watching YouTube and stumbled upon the unbelievable story of a guy called Jim Simons, a mathematician who beat the market by creating an incredible, unique, and mysterious AI algorithm that no one knows how it works (if you don't know this guy, go and check his story). This got me interested, and I started investigating even more. Then I started to follow a guy called Chris Camillo, a trader who claims made his fortune trading options and derivatives by following sentiment trends. From that author, I jumped to another one and another one and... another one. The list is huge, so I said to myself: "Why not try again?"
The idea
The idea was simple: create an app with all of the things I thought could help me catch market moves, sentiment trends, hidden events in the world, and game-changing information hidden in plain sight. From my previous experience, I know that technical analysis is a dark magic that for some reason doesn't work for me, so I didn't spend too much time building things around it.
From that was born a project that I called Social. A set of tools based on graph algorithms, sentiment analysis, LLMs, tons of web scraping, and internet crawling. That was my solution.
The results
Probably you, who are reading, are asking the obvious and most important question: "Did it work?" and the surprising answer is... Yes.
Crazy! I know, but I've been playing with this thing since the end of January and the results have been amazing. The rules I used to test the project were simple: I'm gonna give it a limited budget, and I'm gonna follow the information that Social gave me. To make everything simpler, I created an app and connected everything to an AI Agent, so I can write questions whenever I need more information or I can check the multiple dashboards, where I can inspect the sentiment trend of almost all the companies in the world and track the events that are happening everywhere.
The first hit
The first hit of the project was at the end of February. It was gold. The project told me that I should buy gold because the economic situation in the US wasn't looking right. Also, there were "hidden" events of countries starting to demand more gold, not to mention that the sentiment in the US and the dollar weren't that good.
So I followed, and I bought approximately $300 of PAXG (a crypto that follows gold). To my surprise, gold hasn’t stopped increasing in value since February.
I also traded GME before it went vertical, AAPL, and BTC (sadly I took profit too soon in all these trades because I was testing).
Current state
The project is still in an early phase and I continue doing testing. I'm thinking of releasing the project soon in a closed beta in order for users to start testing it. I share almost daily some information gathered by Social. So, if you are interested in trading or seeing what's going on in the market, follow Social on X.
Conclusion
I've learned a lot doing trading and working on this project, and the results got me really excited. I still need to do more testing, but I feel really motivated. If you wanna see more of the project or get more information, I opened an X account where I'll be posting more information about this project and my other ideas.
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