social apps are fast and shallow. terminals are deep and lonely.
Wick is the room where people who think deeply are social. Research, discussion and investing in one place.
the investors got
more sophisticated.
the tools did not.
A generation of retail investors reads filings, argues about capacity constraints and knows what a drawdown costs. They did not get the tools to match. What they got was an app that makes trading feel like a game, or a terminal priced for an institution and built for someone sitting alone.
Meanwhile the useful conversation moved to group chats and forums, where it has no data next to it and no record behind it. A good argument scrolls away in an afternoon.
Wick puts the two back together. Depth and discussion in one place, with a record behind both, so that people investing their own money can do it with the same rigor as the people who do it for a living.
i spent years at barclays, deutsche bank, and citi building systematic tools for professional investors.
every desk ran on the same foundation: research, testing, sizing rules, disciplined execution. the strategies changed constantly. the foundation didn't, and it never left the building.
retail investors aren't short on intelligence, ideas, or insight. what they've never had is a way to run them the way institutions do.
that's what we're building.
