No need to storm Area 51 to see this space alien

This new stock trading app lets you win a free trip to space!

Andrew Colton
5 min readAug 15, 2019

This alien comes bearing gifts

After many light-years of development and stress testing in the harshest environments of the investment universe, we are now ready to bring the space-age technology to you. To democratize Wall Street once and for all. Not to make empty promises ‘to take from the rich to give to the poor’. The stock market is not a zero-sum game. There is no need to redistribute wealth, ignite class warfare or send anyone to the Gulag. But what we need to do is create a level playing field and make capital markets accessible for all investors.

Your next wealth creation machine is not only a thing of beauty but is also packed with many useful — and not less importantly — usable features. It offers the most enjoyable trading experience ever devised by man (or alien) and is designed to be as simple as possible, and yet as complex as necessary — allowing you to execute elaborate trading strategies with the tips of your fingers. The app also offers a magical fast-learning AI-powered engine — FlexiFeed — which generates tailored content based on behavioral analysis and trading patterns. We are taking machine learning to the next level!

FlexiFeed is able to identify common trading biases and behavioral patterns to provide relevant educational content, news, insights, and research whenever these biases are detected — allowing users to avoid the ‘mental traps’ that humans tend to fall into while trading, and therefore improve odds of making rational investment decisions.

The human brain is not made for trading because it is preconditioned for many behavioral biases. We aim to correct this by taking into account research from leading behavioral economists and scientists. Artificial intelligence can bring value wherever large volumes of well-structured data are available. Finance does offer such data, in contrast to many other sectors where the benefits of AI are questionable.

We believe that the best investment products of the future will be based on a deep understanding of people’s mind using big data analysis and AI. Machine learning has already changed the way we work and process information in the modern business environment. It is mostly based on what you’d call ‘supervised learning’ or programming. In this type of learning, developers create a curated or labeled set of data, and computers learn to associate different shapes, sounds, or words with those curated sets. This process is incredibly labor and time-intensive.

Nevertheless, it has helped us become more efficient, make smarter decisions, and target consumers better than ever before. But there is a whole new type of learning that is going to offer a lot more. In ‘reinforcement learning’, the learning part happens much differently. The computer learns by interacting with the world around it. It learns through trial and error what the goal is, rather than being told of it. In essence, it learns to solve problems — not to look for specific solutions.

Unlike machine learning, which uses data analysis to allow computers to learn without being programmed, reinforcement learning allows computers to learn from experience — just like humans do. It teaches computers to think, not just learn. Using their own judgment, they determine their behavior based on external feedback, just like humans would when operating in their physical environments.

As in the Edward Thorndike’s well-known experiment where a cat was trapped in a box until it learned to step on a lever in order to escape, AI is now learning how to solve problems much faster using this approach. It is almost as if the technology is crossing over into humanity as we study its behaviors under various methods of conditioning.

However, no computers will ever completely replace the human learning process when it comes to making individual investment decisions. That is why we are also introducing the add-on app — Cosmos — which serves as a supplementary educational tool for investors. This versatile app delivers a range of educational content, including interactive courses, quizzes, insightful articles, and videos — all aimed at teaching amateur traders about investment best practices in order to help them become responsible, informed participants in the market.

The fintech industry is evolving at a rapid and exciting pace. There is a significant opportunity for startups to leverage new technology in groundbreaking, disruptive ways and make a long-term, positive impact on society at large. By harnessing the power of AI, particularly through the multifunctional FlexiFeed engine, Spacealien seeks to educate, inform and make a consistent winner out of you. And to promote a thoughtful, intelligent, and sophisticated approach to trading, while helping to expand market access for all investors.

To celebrate the launch of our revolutionary trading platform, we’ll be giving away major prizes (including a free trip to space 🚀) to our early adopters and brand ambassadors. You can join the waitlist and earn referral points here.

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Andrew Colton

Besetting a man like a whirlwind, Driving him like a storm, Whose course no one can follow, Whose destiny no one can foretell… www.linkedin.com/in/andrewcolton