Welcome to Bufferino!
Bufferino is a AI that uses the wisdom of value investing and automatizes it. A struggle I had with value investing, was the many hours it would take to read about the industry, the anual reports, the proxies...etc, many times I would miss on huge opportunities because the time it took to analyse the information.
I started developing Bufferino around 2011. The first version would look for keywords in anual reports and link those drivers to news posted on the web and prices of comodities, FX and indices. Bufferino worked great till it didn`t. I realized that Bufferino needed to adapt to the new market realities, that is when I started looking at artificial intelligence. By the end of 2012, I had a working Bufferino 2.0 that while consolidate the same information and other sources, had the ability to realize when correletions broke.
In 2013 I started paper trading Bufferino, it returned 14.9%, in 2014 it returned 16.7%. That is when i decided to try a real-money account. At the same time I started this blog where I would post the monthly portfolios and the performance. I realized that to take Bufferino to the next level I needed to include more sources of information that were expensive and hire a team. For example, the Bloomberg Terminal costs $21,000 a year. Also, now we are a team composing a data scientist and an analyst. To finance that, in september 2017 I started charging a nominal fee for the monthly portfolios.
So far this has been a great experience and I appreciate all the people that have been following Bufferino and giving me tips on how to improve it.
As always, if you have any questions or think you can help improve Bufferino please email us at bufferino.ai@gmail.com