
I Replaced My Financial Advisor With Claude (Full Build)
This video shows how to transform Claude or ChatGPT into a fully-fledged financial advisor. The system includes a portfolio tracking dashboard, daily market analyses, and automated Telegram alerts. The key is not just good prompts, but a structured memory architecture that gives the AI continuous context about you and your finances.
đ The Foundation: A Personal Memory System
The critical difference from simple chat queries is data-driven personalization. The AI is trained to behave like a McKinsey or Goldman Sachs analyst â based on real, personal data.
đ Memory Folder Structure:
- Investor One-Pager: A questionnaire (6 phases) covering your financial situation, risk tolerance, goals, and mindset. The result is a summary saved as a
.mdfile. - Instructions.md: Defines the AI's behavior (e.g., "no fluff, direct, like a McKinsey advisor"). Includes a vital rule: "Read the one-pager and memory before every response. Update memory.md immediately when new information emerges â append, never overwrite, date every entry."
- Memory.md: A running log of all financial decisions, market assessments, and new insights. This document grows with every interaction, ensuring constant context retention.
- Financials Folder: Contains bank statements, profit & loss statements (e.g., monthly), so the AI knows your operating income situation.
Tip: Use voice prompting to complete the questionnaire in about 20 minutes. Create the folder on your desktop and connect it to Claude Code / Codex. This gives you full control over your data.
đ Dashboard Building: Live Data and Analysis
With the memory system in place, an interactive dashboard is created â no coding skills required, just instructions to Claude Code.
Dashboard Features:
- Live price data from Yahoo Finance for stocks and crypto
- Google Sheets integration â ideal for manual entry or API connections to brokers and crypto exchanges (e.g., CoinStats, Bybit, Binance)
- Portfolio overview including illiquid positions (e.g., VC investments)
- "Morning Brief" Generator: Automatically analyzes all positions in the context of current market events (e.g., Fed decisions, payroll data)
- Risk profile: Shows specific over- or underweight positions (e.g., "You're still 11% in NVIDIA â despite the trim")
Additional Analysis Options:
- Philosophy Check: Feed transcripts from finance experts (e.g., podcasts) and let the AI check how your portfolio aligns with their theses.
- Multi-Model Comparison: Use the same storage folder in ChatGPT Codex and Claude to get different opinions.
đ€ Automation: Daily Telegram Updates
The biggest value-add: Daily, personalized market updates via Telegram â so you never miss a major development.
How to Set It Up:
- Create a bot via BotFather on Telegram.
- Copy the token into Claude Code.
- Give the command: "Send me a market update every morning at 5:00 AM UTC based on the main headlines affecting my portfolio."
Message Content:
- Price movements over the last 24 hours
- Potential impact on the portfolio
- Concrete action suggestions
- Most important headlines overnight
Use cases: If Trump makes an announcement or the crypto market shifts quietly, you get an alert. For leveraged traders, overnight updates on open positions directly from the exchange are possible.
đĄ Important Notes & Limitations
- Not financial advice: The AI sometimes hallucinates. All outputs must be double-checked.
- Does not fully replace professionals: The system is a "force multiplier" for better decisions â especially for passive investors who often react too late.
- Data sovereignty: The local folder belongs to you. Unlike cloud chats, you have full control over what the AI knows about you.
- Scalable: Beginners can use manual entry in Google Sheets. Advanced users can connect APIs (Bloomberg, Binance, brokers) for real-time data.
đ Conclusion: From Passive to Active AI Investor
The core message: "AI is useless unless it knows everything about you." The memory system is the core of this transformation. It turns a generic chat assistant into a personal financial analyst who:
- knows your goals,
- understands your risk tolerance,
- is always up to date,
- informs you proactively â not just upon request.
Next steps: Miles announces a video on automated trade execution (e.g., a $20,000 AI trading challenge) and a Personal OS version of the dashboard.






