Author
Mike Hutson
Founder, Wealth Engine Pro
Mike Hutson is the founder of Wealth Engine Pro, a systematic investment research platform built for self-directed investors who want data over narrative. He created Wealth Engine to solve a problem he experienced firsthand: the tools available to individual investors were either too simplistic to be useful or too complex to be actionable.
His investing approach is rooted in systematic analysis rather than gut feel or market storytelling. He focuses on options income strategies, put-selling, and dividend investing, with a particular emphasis on finding high-quality companies at prices where the math makes sense. Wealth Engine is built with that philosophy at its core — a quantitative framework designed to remove emotion from the process.
The Insights articles reflect the same principle. When Mike writes an investment thesis or an avoid thesis, the argument starts with the numbers: valuations, margins, cash flows, and what the data actually says versus what the market narrative assumes.
Mike built Wealth Engine Pro as a solo founder, handling everything from the data pipelines and scoring algorithms to the frontend and the research. He is based in the Chicago area.