The AI (ChatGPT) Stock Investing Handbook: Preface

My wife, Karen Brockney, introduced me to ChatGPT in early January 2023. I gave it a try and after playing with it for a few days I was hooked. The articles about stocks and investing that ChatGPT generates are consistently well organized, well written and mostly accurate. They tend to be an overview of a topic and in general lack specific data. After I got the hang of entering cogent prompts, I was able to very quickly generate one article after another. So I decided to produce a "handbook" consisting of many articles from ChatGPT about stocks and investing. Think of the handbook as a reference guide rather the a book that tells a story from beginning to end.

The Table of Contents of this handbook includes 240 articles written exclusively by ChatGPT that are the result of my prompts. I have not made a single edit to any article; what you read is exclusively from ChatGPT.

During the development process, I did not keep articles that included incorrect information. I often found stock symbols not to be current and some specific data was dated. In these cases I changed the prompt until I got accurate information. I carefully checked each article for accuracy before I accepted it, but I'm sure I missed some inaccurate information during my review. Note: The stock information from ChatGPT has a cut-off date of 2021.

Some of the articles conclude with an AI image generated by Midjourney from prompts entered by my wife. These images add vivid color and occasionally a bit of humor to the article. Karen also helped me in the design and production of the handbook.

ChatGPT does not have the ability to generate charts so I have included non-AI charts in some articles.

I did not include much information about bonds or crypto currencies because they are nothing like stocks. I will add iarticles about mutual funds in later updates.

Go to buyupside.com for much more information about stocks and investing.

Enjoy reading the handbook.

Richard Howard and Karen Brockney

Our Bios

I, Richard Howard, am a retired college professor and technical writer. I taught computer programming, statistics and technical writing at Clark University in Worcester, MA and then worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a software writer. I have degrees from Iowa State University (B.S.), University of California at Berkeley (M.S.) and University of Massachusetts at Amherst (PhD). My primary areas of study were wood technology and forest management.

I began stock investing in 1978 and was an active trader from 1993 through 1999, when I earned my living trading stocks. Now I manage my stock portfolio (mostly dividend-paying stocks) and trade stocks occasionally.

I created and manage buyupside.com, a site about stocks and investing.

I, Karen Brockney, provide web design for buyupside.com, tech support and encouragement to my husband.

I am a retired minister, technical writer and e-communications director. I served United Church of Christ churches in Rhode Island and Massachusetts before working as a technical writer at various tech companies. My last job was Director of E-Communications at Andover Newton Theological School, my alma mater. I have degrees from Hartwick College (B.A. in French) and Andover Newton Theological School (M.Div).

I have enjoyed designing - and sometimes managing - web sites for non-profits. I'm fascinated by the way communication has changed so rapidly through social media apps and AI technologies. I enjoy keeping up with new technologies and finding new ways to engage our audience.

My main interests are photography, photo editing, and easy hikes in the woods. You can view my videos and photos on Instagram (@kbrockney) and tutorials on YouTube (@kbrockney).