Ken

Ken Capital is an independent investment-research portfolio — where I do my investment work, published in the open so the thinking is visible, not just the conclusion.

This site grows with me. I publish my work in the open as I go — partly to build toward a career in equity portfolio management, and just as much to share what I'm learning and help other investors, everyday and professional alike, make better sense of the markets. I'll keep adding to it throughout the journey. If it also helps me break into the industry, so much the better — the evidence is here regardless.

I'm an economics undergraduate at Baruch College (Zicklin School of Business, BBA Economics, Dec 2026), having passed all three CMT Program examinations — charter pending qualifying experience — and currently a CFA Program Level I candidate. That pairing is the lens: technical work for timing and regime reads, fundamental work for what something is worth. How I put the two together is in the process.

In 2025 I was a Junior Investment Analyst Intern at Wealth Mill, where I published weekly research and ran each note end-to-end — data gathering, valuation cross-checks, and a Buy/Neutral/Sell call, framed against Fed policy and macro conditions. I've also written markets and economics coverage for The Ticker at Baruch, and I wrote Investing: Bet You're Playing the Loser's Game (2024), a short book on investor behaviour and market efficiency — proceeds donated to the CMT Association and the Baruch College Library.

Why finance

It's been long enough now that I have to reach back for the reason — but the simplest version is that it fascinated me. I never wanted a life of doing the same thing every day, the way most work tends to go. I wanted to learn, to explore, to keep discovering — and finance is one of the few fields that never sits still. It asks you to study what's happening in the world and turn that into opportunity, and it rewards you for getting a little better every single day. I saw a field of almost unlimited potential, and I still do.

What actually got me in was technical analysis — and it started early, at twenty, before I'd even begun college. In 2023 I went to the CMT Association's 50th-anniversary celebration and found myself in a room with the people who built the field — Ralph Acampora, Tom DeMark, and others I still can't quite believe I got to meet. Reading the market from the chart itself was what fascinated me most, and it's an unconventional way in: most students meet the market through fundamentals, because that's what schools and academic institutions overwhelmingly teach.

It was really from there that I knew I wanted to manage money at a high level — what I'd later come to understand as the institutional level. Equities is where I want to specialize, technical analysis among the rest. And beneath all of it was something I still find striking: that investing well can, in fact, grow real capital over time. Not the money itself so much as the fact of it — that studying, thinking, and being right can turn very little into something real. There are no guarantees, and none of it is effortless. In a world this digitalized the gains can feel almost weightless, but they trace back to real analysis and real value. That still fascinates me — it's why I keep going.

Get in touch

Email: research@ken-capital.com

LinkedIn: /in/kenzhang612

GitHub: @kenken-design