Home to a retired computer programmer
I have retired. I am now following my interest in the stock market and AI in particular. I have three GitHub repositories under JonAKris. The goal is to have a private stock database using Postgres and then analysis of the data to look for candidate stocks to invest in.
By the way, as an aside, retirement is the way to go. My stress level has dropped from 90% to 5% since retirement. Work is a highly overrated experience!
I have always been interested in computers since before I started my sophomore year (1970) of high school. I began by programming an IBM 1620 in machine language, then assembler and finally in Fortran. I thought Fortran was cheating.
I worked as a technician at a small industrial control company in Huntsville, AL. I became interested in small computers. I built a wire-wrapped RCA 1802 ELF computer, later a few different MOS 6502 and variants. Fueling my interest in small computers.
I have a slew of 24 Arduino, Raspberry PI, Orange PI and ROCK PI computers. They didn’t have the juice to do the license plate recognition application I was working on in my spare time after work.
I purchased the Minisforum MS-01 and later changed the order to the MS-A1. It is a great computer. I’m running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS server on it. I have Postgres installed with Ollama. Kudos to Minisforum for allowing me to change my order. They have great customer service.
I’ve been using Claude AI for the coding. I started with OpenAI and purchased a monthly subscription to ChatGPT. I’ve now dropped that and have a Claude.ai paid account. In my opinion Claude does a better job than ChatGPT generating Python code for my purpose in my opinion.
I’ve also tried DeepSeek V4, but in my opinion Claude is still better. I had Claude review the DeepSeek V4 python code and it rewrote it.
I had an EODData account. Customer service is difficult at best . Acceptable for resetting limits and immediate technical problems, but otherwise meh. I switched to EODHD, better support for sure . A bit more expensive, but cheaper than a golf outing ⛳.
The repositories were for downloading the end of day stock prices, fundaments, etc. to a Postgres database on my Minisforum MS-A1 computer. Then run analysis on the data to help me do my own analysis and all the data and come up with a short lit to review.
I should let you know that I’m a terrible stock picker, but a good computer enthusiast. If I buy, you should sell, if I sell you should by. My wife is the stock picker at home.
I’m now at the stage of analyzing the stock data. I have a simple email sent to me and my wife showing the stocks that looked interesting to the AI analysis.
The code is in the GitHub repositories under JonAKris.