Automate Your Edge

What if retirement investing did not have to depend on fear, headlines, or gut instinct?
Self-directed IRA investors face one of the hardest challenges in retirement planning: staying invested enough to participate in long-term growth while avoiding emotional decisions during market stress.
Automate Your Edge introduces a rules-based investing framework designed for retirees, near-retirees, and self-directed investors who want a more disciplined way to manage stock exposure, cash reserves, and market volatility.
Instead of trying to predict the market, this book shows how to combine investor sentiment, market momentum, volatility triggers, and a simple weekly spreadsheet routine into a repeatable decision process.
Inside, you will learn how to:

• Translate fear and greed into a measurable input
• Cross-check investor sentiment against market momentum
• Build a simple spreadsheet-based allocation routine
• Use cash reserves and circuit breakers during panic conditions
• Reduce emotional decision-making with a scheduled weekly process
• Avoid common mistakes that can turn a rules-based plan back into emotional investing