What a Paid Stock-Picking Service Actually Did for Me

When I started investing, I used a paid service called Sigma Stocks for about a year. It built a risk-profiled target portfolio, twenty to thirty stocks, and told me what to buy next with each contribution. That’s genuinely valuable when you can only invest 2,000 to 5,000 kronor a month, since building real diversification from scratch takes a long time otherwise.

Once I had a substantial portfolio, Sigma Stocks lost its value for me. I wasn’t selling, just adding to what I already held, so the buildup service had done its job. I realized the core value was just that initial buildup phase, and that it didn’t need Sigma Stocks’ full sophistication.

That’s what I kept when I built Stegvis. It’s aimed at people who don’t yet have the liquidity to buy into a 100,000 to 200,000 kronor diversified portfolio all at once. It picks what to buy next using signals like momentum, growth and cash flow, simpler than Sigma Stocks’ model, and I’ve deliberately left the logic somewhat open. If you’re curious, you can read up on the terms yourself or look at the code.

I built it the same way I approached the financial business case tool, starting from a real problem rather than a hypothetical one. It’s not financial advice, just a way to get started.

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