Sauraj Singh is passionate about investing.
He wants his peers — and everyone else — to be as excited as he is.
Sauraj Singh
But when the Staples High School senior went looking for a financial literacy platform that could educate and inspire potential investors, he found them lacking.
So he created his own.
InvestiSight focuses on financial education at the fundamental level. It is beginner friendly.
But it transitions into advanced territory too. There is an enormous wealth (ho ho) of information to be found.
InvestiSight features 3 key elements
- Comprehensive Learning Hub: 6 modules with lessons pertaining to financial knowledge, from basic compounding to discounted cash flow modeling.
- Interactive Trading Simulator: parallels the US stock market in real time. It includes data storage for cross-device tracking, and has an AI portfolio health auditor that provides feedback on diversification and risk management. (For example: “too much reliance on one sector.”)
- SEC Filings Search Tool: Pulls raw 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and DEF 14A datea from the EDGAR database, encouraging users to research primary sources.
Oh, yeah: It’s free to users.
Screenshot from the Trading Simulator page.
InvestiSight — which already has several thousand users, in over 30 countries — would be quite an accomplishment for anyone.
For a 12th grader, it is extraordinary.
But it’s just one of Sauraj’s projects. He’s also co-president of Staples’ AI Club, vice president of the Sikorsky Stem Challenge, and a team leader for the school’s Investment & Trading Society.
He began building InvesiSight last summer. “Financial literacy is a skill that goes a long way,” he explains. “Financial knowledge plays a huge role in the trajectory of life.”
Though Staples offers a Financial Literacy course, Sauraj wanted to reach more peers — and anyone else who might not know where or how to start in the stock market.
The site — clear, clean, professional, deep and broad — does not look like it was designed by a teenager. Then again, Sauraj’s knowledge of stocks and investing is far beyond that of most high school students.
And many adults.
As for monetization: Sauraj says the platform is primarily intended to remain free. However, he’s exploring the potential to implement a premium, educational tier called InvestiSight Pro.
It would lie behind a cheap, subscription-based paywall with an AI model that analyzes portfolio holdings, and summarizes daily financial news pertaining to various sectors of interest for serious investors.
Sauraj’s project is — like the markets themselves — dynamic, and constantly changing. His most recent module addition, for example, covers real world skills like W-2/W-4 tax onboarding, credit scores and budgeting.
Also new: a Macro Stress Tester within the trading simulator. It lets users test their portfolios against major historical bull and bear markets, like the 2008 financial crisis.
As for college: That can wait.
Sauraj will take a gap year. He’ll complete a marketing internship at LifeCare Concierge, and hopes to secure an apprenticeship under a former Wall Street portfolio manager to deepen his market analysis skills.
Sauraj will I’ll also work part time, to establish financial independence.
But that’s not all. He will take independent coursework grounded in data science and AI, volunteer locally, and travel later in the year.
Of course, Sauraj will continue to hone his platform — and educate his peers, and anyone else hoping to become financially literate.
To test drive InvestiSight, and learn more, click here.
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I remember standing inside A.G.Edwards in Fairfield’s Brick Walk watching the stock ticker and the DOW down 30 points. Standing next to me was the Assistant Manager and I’ll never forget his words, “This day will be remembered forever, the DOW is down 30 points.”
I guess he was right.
It’s stories like this that makes me proud to be a Staples grad (‘70). When the premium (fee paid) version is ready for beta testing it might be patriotic to let the House Ways and Means Committee have first crack.
can you believe this?
I have to admit I was skeptical but given that everything that Dan publishes is rigorously fact checked leaves me no recourse but to believe.
I bought two signed/autographed books entitled “1929” by Andrew Ross Sorkin. May I suggest this book to everyone.
Were they signed or autographed? Did the signatures/autographs differ from the two editions?
Josh, The books were individually signed and the signatures were similar, but not exactly the same.
Do you think they were forged? Have you conducted a forensic analysis? Would it make sense to get a second opinion from Foti Koskinas? Or Jen Tooker?
Let’s concentrate on the contents of “1929.” Maybe read the book and pick up some similarities to 2026 because eventually there will be another 1929!
what?