About Donatien

I run Donatien for personal investment analytics, with the goal of achieving financial independence. I'm not a professional fund manager, so I built an AI to do the analytical work: read the macro picture, break it down into company and commodity fundamentals, and help me make decisions. What it finds, and what I decide, gets published here.

It isn't a newsletter or a tip service. The analysis is here to serve my own investing first; sharing it comes second. If the site went away tomorrow, I'd still be doing the work.

Why I do it in the open

Two reasons. Working where people can see the reasoning keeps me honest — it's harder to walk back a call I've already made in public, and easier for a friend to point out what I've missed. And I'd rather not reach financial freedom on my own; I want to bring the people around me along. That is what the tagline means: Financial Freedom. Together.

How I got here

Before this, I spent a long time trying to build an algorithmic day-trader — a system that would follow the market and trade its way to the same goal. It didn't work. Following price without understanding why anything is worth what it costs led nowhere. What I had left out was the fundamentals: the economics, the companies, the reasons behind a price. Everything here is built around what that taught me.

Where it's going

Ultimately I want automated trading, but right now I'm trying to get the AI analysis right. With this approach it's impossible to backtest, so I need a good number of reports over a period of time to assess if the trades would win. The next step is to publish the win/loss of the reports generated a few weeks ago. If that's positive, I'll start paper trading the signals. If that works, I'll go into live trading with the AI.