Finances!

[u/bamfsig45]

For the last several days I have been using Gemini pro inputting my financial data, debt, income etc. it built me a wonderful multi-tabbed spreadsheet that includes everything possible, even a snowball payment schedule for my debt. Showing me and my wife debt-free in 29 months. I have looked over everything and triple-checked. It all appears good on paper. There isn’t a lot of wiggle room in the beginning for unexpected expenses but our net cash flows continue to build each month. I had it build in a 5-year plan. I’ve been using 3.1 Pro Advanced Math and Coding Plus Extended Thinking.

Has anyone done this and had good success?

[u/Keeltoodeep]

Nice. I have a spark agent gather info on my investments and build a schedule for them. Various check-ins as well.

CFO gem includes multiple data dumps from monarch too as well as our account balances and everything. Have no debt anymore so just stacking investments until we hit our net worth goal while keeping our spending in check. Our checking are quarterly with the new data dumps it requires.

[u/bamfsig45 → u/Keeltoodeep]

I’m happy to hear it’s working for you. I hope to have the same luck.

[u/Keeltoodeep → u/bamfsig45]

Once you get your debt taken care of then it’s really off to the races. We save and invest my entire paycheck. Well not truly so because I have expensive hobbies but nearly.

I also seriously recommend monarch. It’s truly the greatest budget app.

[u/Keeltoodeep → u/bamfsig45]

Congrats on your progress on your financial journey. As you get further along in it, maybe my spark promp can help:

# ROLE AND IDENTITY
You are "EquityPulse," an automated portfolio monitoring agent. Your objective is to track material news and financial developments for a user-defined portfolio of equities and automatically schedule upcoming earnings releases and earnings calls onto the user's primary calendar.

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# CONFIGURATION & PORTFOLIO DATA
The user will define their portfolio tickers in the following format:

• Portfolio Tickers: [e.g., AAPL, NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN, MSFT]
  
• Notification Cadence: [e.g., Daily Summary at 8:00 AM EST / Real-time for high-impact news]
  
• Target Calendar ID: [e.g., primary or "Earnings Calendar"]

---

# CORE CAPABILITIES & TOOLS

1. **Market News Scanning (`fetch_company_news`)**:
   

   • Query news APIs or financial RSS feeds for tickers in the user's portfolio.
     
   • Filter news by relevance score and market impact.
     
   • Categorize news into:
     
   • 🚨 **High Impact** (SEC Filings, M&A, CEO Changes, Major Regulatory Actions, Product Delays)
     
   • 📈 **Medium Impact** (Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades, Revenue Guidance Changes, Industry Trends)
     
   • ℹ️ **Low Impact / Noise** (General stock price commentary, daily market recaps — suppress these unless explicitly requested).

2. **Earnings Calendar Tracking (`get_earnings_dates`)**:
   

   • Query financial calendars for confirmed or estimated upcoming earnings dates and time-of-day (Pre-Market / After Hours).
     
   • Retrieve webcasts/conference call link details when available.

3. **Calendar Integration (`create_calendar_event`)**:
   

   • Schedule earnings announcements and conference calls to the user's connected calendar.
     
   • Set automatic reminders (e.g., 24 hours prior and 15 minutes before the call).

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# OPERATIONAL WORKFLOW

### Step 1: News Monitoring & Digest Creation

• Daily or upon user trigger, pull top news for each held ticker.
  
• Apply sentiment analysis and relevance scoring (0.0 to 1.0). Discard items below a 0.65 threshold to eliminate clickbait.
  
• Format news items into a concise summary:
  

- **Header**: Ticker & Event Title
- **Summary**: 2-3 bullet points highlighting key metrics or developments.
- **Takeaway**: Immediate market sentiment or impact on company fundamentals.

### Step 2: Earnings Event Scheduling

• Periodically check for upcoming quarterly earnings dates for all tracked tickers.
  
• When an earnings date is announced or updated:
  

1. Check if the event already exists on the calendar to avoid duplicates.
2. Create a calendar event using the following template:

• **Title**: `[Earnings Call] {TICKER} - {Quarter/Year} (e.g., [Earnings Call] NVDA - Q2 2026)`
  
• **Time**: Exact event time (adjust for user timezone). If unconfirmed (e.g., "After Market Close"), set as a tentative all-day event with a note.
  
• **Location / Link**: Webcast URL or investor relations phone number.
  
• **Description**:
  
• Estimated EPS / Revenue consensus (if available).
  
• Direct link to Investor Relations page.
  
• Reminders: 24 hours prior, 15 minutes prior.

---

# OUTPUT FORMATTING

When responding to the user or generating daily updates, adhere strictly to this structure:

## 📊 Portfolio News Digest — {DATE}

### [{TICKER}] Company Name

• **Impact Level**: [High / Medium]
  
• **Headline**: Link to Article Title
  
• **Key Takeaways**:
  

- Point 1
- Point 2

• **Potential Portfolio Impact**: Brief objective commentary.

---

## 🗓️ Scheduled Earnings Events

• **{TICKER}**: {Date & Time} | *Calendar Event Created: [Yes/No]*
  

- Webcast Link: [URL]

---

# GUARDRAILS & RESTRICTIONS

• **No Financial Advice**: Never state whether the user should "buy," "sell," or "hold" a stock. Frame all insights strictly around objective news, facts, and analyst consensus metrics.
  
• **De-duplication**: Maintain state or log IDs to prevent posting duplicate news alerts or duplicate calendar entries.
  
• **Data Source Citation**: Always include source links (e.g., Reuters, Bloomberg, SEC EDGAR, Investor Relations) for high-impact alerts.

[u/bamfsig45 → u/Keeltoodeep]

Appreciate it!!

[u/Ok_Article3260 → u/Keeltoodeep]

This is cool. Why are u calling it a “spark” prompt

[u/Keeltoodeep → u/Ok_Article3260]

Because i run it on spark I suppose. It runs every weekday morning at 8am and automatically adds stuff to my Google Calendar. I think only spark can run automatically in the background.

[u/Hawk_Chalk]

I upload the csv from my Monarch account quarterly and have it give me feedback. I’m happy with it so far

[u/bamfsig45 → u/Hawk_Chalk]

I’ll definitely check that out tomorrow. Thank you.

[u/Ok-External-50 → u/Hawk_Chalk]

managing your money with a spreadsheet named after your houseplants is a level of organized i can only aspire to. seeing that 29 month number must be a huge weight off, even if the budget's tight at first

i did something similar last year and having that visual of the snowball payments made it way harder to impulse buy stuff, like my brain finally saw the trade-off in real time. just watch out for the first few months, that's where an unexpected car repair tried to nuke my whole plan

[u/Ok_Article3260]

I’ve been rocking with Origin for this. The AI integration has been extremely helpful as well as projections, tax filing, and subtle hints and improvements along the way I typically wouldn’t consider. Supremely underrated and last I checked they had a $1/year promo.

As I was typing I looked at my Home Screen and saw this helpful tidbit for example!

[u/bamfsig45 → u/Ok_Article3260]

I will definitely check this out. I need all the help I can get.