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How I used Google Cloud Platform to start investing in stocks

Muhammad Syuqri on October 06, 2018

I got interested in investing after attending a short talk recommended by a friend of mine. I decided to do some research and started reading The L...
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Bruno Marques

That's some real cool stuff!

I'm half-skeptical about the Greenblatt formula's effectiveness on larger exchanges compared to a reliable passive ETF such as the venerable SPY, but on the smaller ones it seems good enough to weed out the garbage tickers.

Now I want to try it out on the B3 here in Brazil!

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Muhammad Syuqri

It does seem to weed out garbage tickers, but only time will tell if the decisions are the 'right' ones or not. But it's a good idea to diversify into various securities and not be tied to just stocks.

Here's to a fruitful learning journey in investing :D

Would like to see the outcome from your strategies too in the near future!

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Muhammad Syuqri

Successful in receiving gains in my stocks? Not yet as I expect the investment to be long-term, meaning 1-3 years, before seeing any profits from them. I am still new to the concept of investing. Still learning to invest both my money, and time, so let's see where it goes from here :D

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Ben Halpern

This is fabulous. Great stuff.

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Muhammad Syuqri

Thanks Ben!

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Ed Almeida

Great job Muhd, thank you!

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Muhammad Syuqri

Thank you Ed!

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Thuruv

Hey, The clear explanation of the structure is wonderful. what's the cost structure?

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Muhammad Syuqri

The cost structure of running on GCP? For this use case, it is $0.00. I have deliberately checked the costs for running this on AWS and GCP and GCP provides free usage for these components forever (till there are changes in their use agreements). AWS only provides free usage for 12 months for their EC2 servers. In the long run, I found that keeping things free would be good as ultimately, my aim would be to minimize cost, so that I can invest more :)

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Gafaba.com

Woa....great stuff. TY

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Julien Bisconti

Nice post! Thank you for sharing.