I takes me about 40 hours to do proper DD on a company.
It depends if I know the sector well, if not then even more.
The actual trade is just hitting the sell/buy button.
That's once in a month.
I don't think I could ever automate the DD process.
You can come up with good AI and amazing algos but at the end of the day, a doctor knows more about the ill person just by looking at him/her for a few seconds, I feel like it's the same with trading/investing.
If I automate the valuation, I lose the connection to a company and its numbers.
Another example would be insider transactions, there is a difference how you evaluate insider trading, it depends on the company and its market cap, the sector, and the management.
I don't even know how I could ever come up with good indicators for those issues.
Now there are also people who use TA, that's your clientele.
Vendor Native — Xcode or Android Stidio — is still king but clients typically care more about what your app does for them than how you made it (unless the way you made it adds dozens of megabytes to the final app like Xamarin.Forms does). Learning the vendor-Native stack will give you a far greater understanding of the underlying OS which will set you apart from other Ionic devs who start panicking when an app returns a java exception of Android or similar on iOS.
Doing Xamarin development for a few years taught me that you really need to understand the underlying operating system and how it works. Most of the consulting gigs I got were what I called "bomb squad programming" where a C# web shop decided "How hard can it be?" and embarked on a Xamarin.Form project only to discover too late what they didn't know. When I started mobile work with Xamarin this bit me as well (but I Googled my way out of it quickly enough). These weren't dumb programmers but just because you can expertly apply C# in web development doesn't mean you can instantly apply that in another kind of programming (like multi-threading, desktop, server services... or mobile). The very best Xamarin devs I knew came over from doing ObjC in Xcode or Java in Android Studio. What made them so good is that they understood at a deep level how to write mobile apps. It's like if you do Java MVC web development and switch over to ASP.NET MVC. The concepts are pretty much identical so the only hurdle is adapting to the language/syntax differences.
Really long-winded way of saying: sticking with Ionic initially and making friends with someone who can bail you out and/or mentor you on deeper understanding of the mobile operating systems will pay off.
I could not find any indicators in their quarterly report.
I didn't believe that someone would buy AMD.
I did not just short sell it instantly but I waited for news, once I realised that I was right, I shorted them and also made profit.
I believe in the company and I think that this stock will be much more worth in a few years but those absurd gains were just panic buyers and once they realised that they were wrong they started panic selling. Great week for me
So "I have no idea" wasn't quite accurate - you did have an idea. Your analysis showed the spike was panic buyers, and there was no indication of a reason for the spike.
