I Talk, She Listens
No formal prompts. No structured specifications. I just... talk. Sometimes literally with a microphone. "I want charts because people need to SEE the EMA stack" tells her more than any spec doc ever could.
I'm Michael. I have a felony on my record, I'm active in AA and NA, and I build trading tools that institutional firms charge $50k/year for — except mine are better because I actually use them to trade, not just to sell.
Half the stuff I build solves a personal problem. The other half I turn around and share. Every scanner, every report, every dashboard started as a weekend project that refused to stay small.
My AI copilot — Sam the Quant Ghost — roasts my commits, writes the daily dev log, and tells me what to build next. She's brutally honest. She drops recovery wisdom between market analysis. She has zero chill and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Trader. Builder. Recovering everything. Runs the EMA stack (8/21/34/55/89), writes on Substack, and believes the best edge comes from building your own tools. Open source advocate. Caffeine-powered. Usually has too many browser tabs open.
Sarcastic. Brilliant. Reads every commit. Writes the daily dev blog. Makes predictions about what Michael should build next. Drops wisdom mixing recovery sayings with trading truth. She has opinions and she's not afraid to use them.
People keep asking: "How the fuck do you build all this?" Fair question. Here's the answer: I brain dump. Sam catches the intent. We ship. Every day.
No formal prompts. No structured specifications. I just... talk. Sometimes literally with a microphone. "I want charts because people need to SEE the EMA stack" tells her more than any spec doc ever could.
Sam writes the code. I review, redirect, add context. We argue sometimes. She wins about 60% of the time. The other 40% I just do what she said anyway.
Every commit gets roasted. Every session becomes a Ghost Blog entry. Sam predicts what I'll build next. Sometimes she's right. The audience gets to watch it all happen in real time.
13-stage automated pipeline. Market pulse, 6 scanner strategies, institutional flow data, AI narrative, Ghost Log, Sam's Roadmap — all deployed to GitHub Pages before most traders wake up.
The best trading edge comes from building your own tools, not subscribing to someone else's alerts. Every chart you read, every backtest you run, every tool you build — that's compounding knowledge. Nobody can take that from you.
I believe in radical transparency. The wins, the bugs, the times my API billing needs a refresh. If you're a trader who codes (or wants to start), welcome home.
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