{"id":44698,"date":"2018-02-13T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=44698"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:27:25","slug":"the-stock-chasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, we are the Stock Chasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/the-stock-chasers-with-hats.png\" alt=\"The Stock Chasers with Hats\" width=\"500\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Discover What&#039;s Inside<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/#I_am_Simon_I_really_look_like_the_guy_on_the_right\" >I am Simon (I really look like the guy on the right)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/#66_working_to_bring_you_Stockchase_daily\" >6+6 working to bring you Stockchase daily<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/#Stockchase_and_Wealthica\" >Stockchase and Wealthica<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/#Some_random_facts_about_me_and_the_Stock_Chasers\" >Some random facts about me and the Stock Chasers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/the-stock-chasers\/#Thank_you_to%E2%80%A6\" >Thank you to&#8230;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_am_Simon_I_really_look_like_the_guy_on_the_right\"><\/span>I am Simon (I really look like the guy on the right)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I chase stocks with my fellow chasers : Martin, Cody, Jovanni, Henrik, Billy and Melisa in the daily development and publishing team. That&#8217;s not all, we also have Dave,\u00a0Allan, Mike, Martin W.,\u00a0Catherine and Doug in the editing and opinion summaries team. One hell of a team!\u00a0&#x1f525;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"66_working_to_bring_you_Stockchase_daily\"><\/span>6+6 working to bring you <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\">Stockchase<\/a> daily<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\"> We&#8217;re the Stock Chasers! Obviously, we chase for growth stocks.<\/span> We&#8217;re also the team working on <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealthica<\/a>, the app that&#8217;s known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal Capital for Canadians<\/a> that allows you to see all your investments in one place.<\/p>\n<p>I have been building web projects for more than 20 years.\u00a0 I worked at iWeb, a Canadian Internet infrastructure company, for more than 15 years until it was acquired by Internap.\u00a0 I decided to pivot into Fintech after Amazon took over the Internet infrastructure world.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\">Unfortunately, I did not buy <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/67\/AMZN-Q\">Amazon<\/a>&#8216;s stock a decade ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stockchase_and_Wealthica\"><\/span>Stockchase and Wealthica<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Out of the dream of helping growth investors win in the market and make simple consolidated investment reports a reality, <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealthica<\/a> was born.\u00a0 We later acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\">Stockchase<\/a> and we&#8217;ve seen it as a way to let Canadian investors know about our powerful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investment Consolidation<\/a> fintech app.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_random_facts_about_me_and_the_Stock_Chasers\"><\/span>Some random facts about me and the Stock Chasers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a weird collection of Stock Chaser facts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Martin and I are from Montreal but the others are from all over the world<\/li>\n<li>Running this site is currently not profitable, revenues-costs is negative<\/li>\n<li>With your help (buying our offers), we intend to make this site profitable<\/li>\n<li>We usually end the week with a friday afternoon beer<\/li>\n<li>Henrik&#8217;s favorite beers is Belgian-Style Tripels<\/li>\n<li>Martin holds the record for most institutions in a single <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthica.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wealthica<\/a> account: 13<\/li>\n<li>All the Stockchase editors are long-time Stockchase users<\/li>\n<li>Martin and I love <a href=\"https:\/\/sonos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonos<\/a> and we bought stocks around $10<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m into Android and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1833\/GOOG-Q\">Google<\/a> stuff<\/li>\n<li>Martin is a die-hard <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4\/AAPL-Q\">Apple<\/a> fan<\/li>\n<li>Martin holds <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/4\/AAPL-Q\">Apple<\/a> stocks<\/li>\n<li>I hold <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/company\/view\/1833\/GOOG-Q\">Google\/Alphabet<\/a> stocks<\/li>\n<li>We acquired Stockchase with the money from capital gains of stocks we bought on weakness<\/li>\n<li>Even if he&#8217;s a die-hard Apple fan, Martin uses mostly Spotify not Apple Music<\/li>\n<li>Even if he&#8217;s a die-hard Apple fan, Martin uses multiple Sonos speakers, no Home Pod yet<\/li>\n<li>We love music<\/li>\n<li>The Stockchase site codebase was an incredibly big mess<\/li>\n<li>The Stockchase site codebase is getting better<\/li>\n<li>The Stockchase site codebase is being rewritten in Node.js<\/li>\n<li>We missed buying a bunch of tech stocks in their early days<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll keep adding facts here from time to time<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Thank_you_to%E2%80%A6\"><\/span>Thank you to&#8230;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To you. Thank you for reading this. The number of readers, the nice comments and the online mentions are motivations for us to keep up with the hard work involved in bringing you Stockchase and Wealthica.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to stay in touch, you can sign up to Stockchase and join our <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/member\/signup\">newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"mailto:hello@stockchase.com\">contact me<\/a> anytime and here\u2019s our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stockchase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. Ask anything! Who know, maybe one of your questions will end up in our weird collection of facts. Thanks again!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44881\" src=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/simon_signature@2x.png\" alt=\"simon signature@2x\" width=\"176\" height=\"74\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Simon (I really look like the guy on the right) I chase stocks with my fellow chasers : Martin, Cody, Jovanni, Henrik, Billy and Melisa in the daily development and publishing team. 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