Portfolio — London, UK — 2026

started with a trading212 account. got carried away.

Latest Activity 6 Oct 2026 — New timeline page — see the full build log

Writing

Building Taciturn — What I've Learned

Three weeks in, thousands of trades, and a lot of hard lessons about building autonomous systems from scratch.

I Built a Trading Bot With AI in Eight Months. Here's What It Could and Couldn't Do.

Eight months and no coding background. What AI could do for a trading system, and what it couldn't.

Can the Weather Predict Coffee Prices?

Alladin explained without the code: what it looks at, how I tested it, and why I still don't trust it yet.