Summary
The bulk of work one would be doing is research, that’s where the tablets shine and majority of the software is cloud based anyways. Everything else from there is being on top of business and financial laws, knowing basic accounting, and setting up a consulting firm.
For the tech side; We’ll be using the surface pro to run the trading software and developing our data models which would be deployed to heroku via docker images.
Goal
Our goal is to build an inexpensive but effective mobile trading battle station that even an average Expat and Maker could build.
Bill of Materials
Quantity | Item | Price | Details |
---|---|---|---|
1x | Samsung 22" Display | Free from donation shelf | Secondary screen or display for chromecast |
1x | Chromecast | $40 after tax (discounted shelf from wal-mart) | For casting chrome tabs of tickers/sites or news videos |
3x | Kindle fire tablets | 49.99 | used with investing.com and software stack below for ticker streamers |
1x | Surface pro 16Gb | 1,499.99 | Go pro or go home. Seriously; a modern chromebook would do great here especially with the gsuite pairing but the specs on this machine are perfect, just the right graphics and enough ram to run all the trading software, tons of chrome tabs, video streaming, and still have power left over to run docker for market analysis bots |
1x | USB Display | $89.99 | Secondary screen for on the go or when the tablets/chromecast/samsung is tied up. |
1x | Crypto Wallet | $60 | Coinbase is great but crypto is decentriallized like paper money so its best to own your hashes plus crypto doesn’t loose value when you put it in your mattress |
1x | Trading account | $2000 | with this setup one can start with the basics and just jump into a few simple etf trades then turn turn those around to build up further wealth. Optimally though one should start with at lease $10k here to really make a good return on investment. |
Software stack
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fusionmedia.investing
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crypto.currency
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinbase.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fidelity.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tradingview.tradingviewapp
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhd.feedly
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discord
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twitter.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkedin.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchbase.browser
https://gsuite.google.com/
Windows
docker.com
https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/finance-python-trading
https://github.com/galeone/tfgo
https://www.heroku.com/
https://gsuite.google.com/
Active Trader Pro
Battle station in action
** To be documented below **