Hi there! Thanks for stopping by my blog, Neural Market Trends. I’m Thomas Ott, a Civil Department Manager for a medium sized global engineering company.

I started this blog because I like to build neural net and machine learned models that help me identify trends in the financial markets (hence Neural Market Trends). I use these models to trade stocks, currencies, and position my 401k account. Currently I manage a private portfolio of approximately $300,000 directly and over $1,000,000 indirectly (via my 401k groupies). I’ve recently discovered that I have 401k groupies at my wife’s place of employment and whenever I make changes to her portfolio, she sends out an email with the new allocation percentages to her co-workers (note to self: start charging them for this). Lately, though, I’ve been getting more interested in global trends of all sorts, not just finance, and I plan on writing more about those too.

I know that a lot of readers and site visitors come from various search engines looking for my neural net analysis, tutorials, and videos on how to use RapidMiner! You can find my most current videos on my tutorial page, Facebook fan page, Twitter, and You Tube channel.

It should be noted that I will also discuss topics ranging from the economy, marketing, finance, the markets, sports betting, and other tangential things on this blog. Having said all that, I’m always looking to network with engineering, data mining/modeling, and financial professionals. If you want to connect with me, check out my LinkedIn profile.

Thanks so much for visiting, I hope you decide to stay and become a reader! On the way out, please remember to subscribe to my feed, you can do this in a feed reader or you can get my posts emailed to you daily!

Sincerely,

Thomas Ott