Trader of markets and tool builderBrighton, UT

Gavan
Ganung

I'm a stock picker and trader by trade. Markets keep changing, which is what I like about them: there's always something new to learn. I study the investors and traders who came before me and work toward a style of my own. I also love to build, and AI is how I turn ideas into the tools I use.

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The objective°00
Compound
for decades.

Preserve capital first. Then compound it at a high rate for a very long time, through a few great businesses and a disciplined trading book. Measured against the S&P 500.

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Start here°

This is the full method: what I buy, what I trade, how I enter, where the stop goes, and why. Read these in order and most of what I post will make sense.

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The objective and the math

Why compounding is the whole game, and what a few extra points a year are worth.

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The long-term book

Fewer than ten businesses, sized by conviction, held for years.

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The swing book

Three setups, one way to enter, and the risk limits that shut everything down.

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The chart book

352 of the biggest winners of the last five years, and what they had in common.

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Recent letters°

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Projects°

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Agent Standings: trading agents graded, with 38 agents tested and most of them fragile
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Agent Standings

The example trading agents from Public, Robinhood and Composer, plus my own, backtested over ten years and checked for luck. Rescored every night. Most don't hold up.

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What I bought, what I traded, and why.

Nothing here is investment advice. I own what I write about.°