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With Ahrvo App, Investors are in Control

While in college at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Appo Agbamu was the student director of Bulldog Fund LLC, a student-run $1.2 million hedge fund. Becoming a director at the hedge fund was not an accident. He had developed a passion for the stock market while in high school because of his father, Atare Agbamu, an active trader who provided the younger Agbamu with the investment basics. It was therefore natural by the time the younger Agbamu showed up in college that a major in finance was almost a given. A turning point in his future finance career was an internship during his senior year at a small investment firm that used what is called a multi-factor ranking system which enabled the small firm to find ‘high caliber investments.’ The success the small firm was having with the system left a lasting impression on Agbamu. The multi-factor ranking system at its core is a scoring system on stocks that helps an investor make a better decision on which stock t...

A New App Aims To Take The Guesswork And Anxiety Out Of Trading

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To the novice trader or even some experienced investors, the biggest hurdle in the path of maintaining a trading career is generally the lack of clear or consistent guidance or means of stock discovery. Broker services like robo advisors and charting, analytics or research platforms are a huge boon for traders who know how to read the charts and key in what exactly they’re looking for. But the story’s much different for those who are just starting to dabble in equities. And while expertise might come eventually, beginning traders have not had institutional-quality guidance about what stocks hold the most potential for a particular portfolio. That was the thought Appo Agbamu had when he set out to create Ahrvo , the first mobile app for traders that uses multi-factor ranking systems to process market and company financial information to provide users with easy to understand stock scores and neural network-aided smart price target. “I worked at a firm my ...