The Stock Prophet: My Quest to Find (and Demystify) Machine Learning for Stock Prediction

The Quest Begins (The "Why") Ever felt like you’re stuck in a loop watching those “AI will make you rich” headlines flash across your feed? I was there, coffee in hand, scrolling through yet another blog promising a “sure‑fire” stock‑picking neural net that supposedly turned $100 into a fortune overnight. It sounded like the holy grail—like Neo finally seeing the Matrix code and knowing exactly which red pill to swallow. I decided to treat it like an Indiana Jones adventure: grab my whip (a...