AI (ChatGPT) Stock Investing Stories #1 - #54: 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. In February I decided to create a group of AI generated "stories" aimed at beginning investors. Each story has a fictional investor and a few paragraphs about a particular stock investing topic that would be useful for investors with not a lot of investing experience. The collection of the 54 stories tells the larger story of investing in stocks for the long run.

Each story was written by ChatGPT according to the prompt that I gave it.

If I found errors in a ChatGPT's response, I submitted a newly-worded prompt until the response was free of errors.

I did not made a single edit to any response; what you read in a story is exclusively from ChatGPT.

Each story includes an AI image of the investor mentioned in the story. Karen did the AI images using Midjourney. These images add a personal touch to each story.

I did not include any stories about bonds or crypto currencies because they are nothing like stocks.

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Enjoy reading the stories.

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).