Cobotic Investing: Man Plus Machine Makes the Smartest Trades

In 1997, Garry Kasparov – the greatest chess player alive – sat across from IBM’s Deep Blue and lost. The world gasped: man had been dethroned by machine. But what happened next was even more remarkable. Kasparov invented a new form of the game called “advanced chess,” where human and AI play together as teammates. The results shocked everyone. Average players using cobotics – man plus machine – began defeating both grandmasters and supercomputers alone.

That lesson reaches far beyond chess. In investing, human instinct alone often misses signals hidden deep in the data. Algorithms alone can crunch numbers but lack vision, judgment, and imagination. Together, though, they can see what others don’t.

That’s the promise of cobotic investing: harnessing AI to scale human intuition. The problem is most investors are still stuck in the old dichotomy – choosing between gut feel and mechanical models, when the real edge comes from blending the two. And the proof is piling up: just as Kasparov’s hybrid players rewrote the history of chess, cobotic systems are beginning to rewrite the history of markets.

The Next Evolution of Stock Picking

If you’ve ever wished you could spot the next  Amazon (AMZN), Nvidia (NVDA), or Apple (AAPL) at the moment before it turned, this is the strategy designed to make that possible. What comes next is how Eric Fry has built Apogee – a cobotic system that fuses his decades of winning instincts with algorithmic firepower – to hunt down the market’s true 10X opportunities.

When people think about the future of artificial intelligence, they picture robots on factory floors or algorithms writing code. What usually does not come to mind is the human sitting opposite the machine, who guides it, molds its outputs, and ensures the final result is genuine.

For decades, investors have had to choose between gut instinct and cold, mechanical models. One often misses nuance. The other misses vision. But what happens when you combine the two?

You get “cobotics” – a new era where man and machine work together to find the market’s biggest winners.

And the results aren’t just incremental. They’re exponential. Imagine being able to systematically spot the next Amazon, Nvidia, or Apple at the exact moment their fortunes were about to change.

That’s the power of cobotics… And it’s about to transform the way we invest.

Investing With Apogee: Where Human Insight Meets AI Power

This isn’t science fiction – it’s happening now…

My colleague Eric Fry, one of the world’s top stock pickers, has built a system that embodies this synergy. It’s called Apogee, and it’s essentially Eric’s famed investing strategy turned into code.

Eric isn’t new to huge winners; he’s nicknamed “Mr. 1,000%” because he’s delivered more than 40 stock picks with 1,000%-plus gains (averaging an astonishing 3,057% each) over his career.

Now he’s downloaded decades of expertise into Apogee – a computerized stock-picker designed to pinpoint the next 10X opportunities automatically.

Apogee is a data-crunching beast. Eric ran 5.2 million back-tests on his system – analyzing 14,000 stocks across 31 years of market history – to hone its predictive power.

Today, Apogee scans the entire market every single day to identify a very specific pattern – a signature “10X Pattern” – that flags future big winners. It blends Eric’s human macro insight with algorithmic precision, the epitome of what Eric calls “cobotic investing” (collaboration between man and machine).

Five Key 10X Factors

In practice, Apogee zeroes in on stocks that meet five key 10X Factors… The five signals that tend to show up right before a stock breaks out:

1. Down a Lot. The best 10X opportunities often start from low bases – Apogee looks for high-quality stocks that have plunged far from their peaks, creating massive upside if they recover.
2. Up a Little. It’s not enough to crash; the stock must start bouncing back. A small rebound off the bottom signals the business has stabilized and the worst might be over.
3. Valuation Sweet Spot. The company trades at a “just right” valuation – not wildly expensive, but not a broken ultra-cheap penny stock either. In this sweet spot, the stock is undervalued and poised for growth.
4. Moderate Growth. The underlying business is growing at a healthy, sustainable pace. We’re looking for steady revenue and profit growth – robust enough to fuel a rally, yet not so fast that it’s unsustainable.
5. Outperformance. The stock has begun quietly beating the market – in other words, it’s generating alpha before the big breakout. Early outperformance is a strong sign of more gains to come.

In other words, Apogee hunts in what Eric calls the “blue sky” sweet spot – that brief window just after a storm, “when the clouds are parting and prices are ready to soar again.”