We built an app to do our daily gold research for us.
Following the gold price takes hours every day: several price websites, the news, the economic calendar, and what the big players are doing. We built Touchstone to do all of that for us.
It plays with pretend money only — no real orders, no accounts, nothing to install.
What it does instead
01It checks the price in several places at once
Prices come from three separate places. Unless at least two agree, it refuses the price and says so, out loud.
It reads the day's gold news
And scores how much each story matters.
It keeps the economic calendar
Each morning's releases are scored too, so the big announcements never arrive as a surprise.
It watches what the big players are doing
And scores that too.
It writes every result down
Where nothing can be changed afterwards. Nothing is deleted — not even the runs that went badly.
It runs on its own
We watch it work, in peace.
Five numbers
02Why we published it
03A software company can say anything about its own standards. This is one you can open and check. Touchstone is not something we sell — it is the clearest proof we have of how we build.
It replays the year six times
Same year of prices, shuffled into six different orders. The ending is the same — the road is different every time.
It marks its own homework
We test our own predictions against what actually happened, and publish the score — good or bad.
Time-stamped on Bitcoin
Every record gets a public time-stamp on the Bitcoin network. Nobody — including us — can quietly change or back-date a result, and anyone can check.
Honest about what is built
Some ideas are running, some are still on the drawing board — and the site says plainly which is which.
And it says what it cannot claim
Touchstone has a page called what we do not claim yet: the record is only weeks old, it covers one market, some tests are not built yet. Nobody made us put that page up. Saying what is unfinished, before anyone asks, is how we work.
How we build
04Find the routine that eats the time
Build a system that runs it. Set it going, then step back and watch it work. It is the habit we bring to everything we build.
It plays with pretend money only — no accounts, no charge, nothing to install, and it collects nothing about you. Practice only: an educational simulator using imaginary money. Not investment advice, no real orders, and past results, real or simulated, do not tell you what happens next.