About
I’m Adam. By day I’m an operations manager — I run buildings, which means I live in labour costs, maintenance capex, scheduling, and the thousand small numbers that decide whether an operation makes money. At some point I realized I was reading company earnings reports the same way I read my own buildings’ monthlies, and that this lens caught things the analyst notes skimmed past.
Market Clerk is that lens pointed at the US and Canadian markets, with one rule that makes it different from every stock-take channel you’ve seen: every call is tracked, in public, forever. When I like a stock, it goes on the Board with the date, the price at publication, and the thesis in two sentences. It gets marked daily against its market’s index — the S&P 500 for US calls, the S&P/TSX Composite for Canadian ones. If I’m wrong, the loss sits there in red, permanently. Nothing gets edited, nothing gets quietly deleted.
There are two other things running here. The Insider Tracker turns the SEC’s EDGAR and Canada’s SEDI — public but nearly unreadable insider-filing systems — into something you can actually use: which executives bought their own stock this week, US nightly from EDGAR and Canada as SEDI filings are imported by hand (sedi.ca blocks automated access), filterable, with cluster buys flagged. And the AI vs. Human experiment pits my picks against a Claude-powered trading bot for twelve months, both of us measured against the index, percentages only.
What this site is not: advice. I’m not a registered investment advisor and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. It’s my opinion and my record — documented, not advised. If you message me asking what you should do with your money, I’ll politely decline; that’s a conversation for a licensed professional. What I can offer is a working operator’s honest read of companies on both sides of the border, and a scoreboard that keeps me honest about how those reads turn out.
The site runs on percentages and public data. No dollar amounts from my life appear anywhere, and the bot’s portfolio is paper-tracked — no real account data is ever shown.
How the bot picks
The bot is Claude (Anthropic’s AI), and its methodology is deliberately narrow — narrow enough that I can write it down here exactly and never deviate from it.
Once a week, a script gathers a short list of candidate tickers from this site’s own tracked signals: stocks currently matching a convergence screen (an insider buying and a member of Congress disclosing a buy in the same name, or a tracked institutional fund opening a brand-new position alongside one of those), stocks with a fresh insider cluster buy, and stocks with the highest Work Order composite scores among PASS verdicts. That is the entire universe the bot is allowed to choose from — it never sees anything else.
Claude is then given that list, with the real numbers behind each candidate (how many insiders bought and how much, which member of Congress disclosed what, which fund opened a new position, what the Work Order score was), and asked to pick exactly one ticker from it and write a two-sentence thesis that cites the specific signal or signals that drove the pick. It is explicitly told not to use any outside knowledge — no news, no fundamentals, nothing from its training data — only the signal data handed to it in that prompt.
The bot picks at most one stock per week. If nothing on the site’s own signals qualifies that week, or if the model’s response doesn’t parse or picks a ticker outside the list it was given, the bot simply sits out — it never invents a pick to keep up appearances. Every pick it does make goes on the Board exactly like one of mine: dated, entered at that day’s market close by the same nightly marking engine, and never edited or deleted afterward, win or lose.