How I Learned the Stock Market and Built a Free AI Trading App

I started with basically zero knowledge about stocks. No trading experience. No financial background. I honestly didn't even know what a stop-loss was. But I got obsessed with a simple question: How do traders actually decide what to buy? The answer was obvious once I looked — they use technical analysis. Charts, weird-sounding indicators like RSI and MACD, patterns in candlesticks. So I dove in. I spent months learning. Built spreadsheets to understand momentum indicators. Watched YouTube tutorials at 2 AM. Traded with fake money on Alpaca's free API until the mechanics clicked. Then one day it hit me: all of this pattern recognition? AI is actually good at that. That's when something shifted from "just learning" to "I could actually build something here." Why Silicon Oracle? Silicon is what chips are made of — the physical substrate of every computer, every algorithm, every AI model that's ever run. Oracle is the ancient idea of a source that gives you foresight, that interprets sign