A CHINESE TRADER BUILT A SECOND BRAIN IN OBSIDIAN THAT GENERATES 3 TRADING IDEAS EVERY MORNING AT 6AM AND MADE $180,000 IN 6 MONTHS.
No Bloomberg terminal.
No analytics desk.
No team of analysts.
A Mac Mini by the wall.
An iPhone in his pocket.
One local Obsidian vault.
Six N8N pipelines running 24/7, pulling every article he reads, every podcast he listens to, and every voice note he drops into a Telegram bot—directly into the vault.
Every night, a neural network reads across 4,000 connected notes and finds the strongest connections between fresh information and old theses.
Every morning at 6AM, a brief lands in his inbox:
- 3 trading ideas with confidence scores
- The emerging thesis of the week
- Any note that contradicts an active position
The system only wakes him up when a fresh note contradicts his thesis, or when an idea breaks 90% confidence.
Everything else runs without him.
The monthly bill: $120 in API costs.
The monthly return: approximately $30,000 into the account.
Traditional quant funds pay teams of 8 people to produce the same flow of insights.
He pays $120 and a Mac Mini.
The full system breakdown is in the article below.
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