Nicholas Gonzalez

I'm an Honors Finance and Accounting student at ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business and Barrett, The Honors College, based in Tempe, AZ. I care about researching, learning, and asking the questions challenge conventional thinking. I enjoy automating the workflows that occur to me along the way. I like to push myself through research, forecasting, and trading.

Current Work

Ironwood Investment Counsel — Investment Research Intern

Writing institutional-grade equity research using Bloomberg and PitchBook, updating valuation models, developing investment theses, and building Excel/Python tools to automate research at an actively managed $2B AUM firm.

ASU W.P. Carey — Assistant Director, Bloomberg Lab

Co-hosting Bloomberg Terminal tutorials for undergraduates and holding office hours for upper-division finance coursework, while supporting faculty with grading and exam proctoring.

Past Work

Arctail — Product & Marketing Consultant

eSports betting platform that supported Fortnite betting markets, scaled to 10K bettors and 7-figure volume through organic marketing. Selected as 1 of 8 fellows (<1.5% acceptance) for a $50K grant from the Sandeep Nailwal Fellowship.

Projects

OngoingHonors Thesis

Researching credit risk in the private student loan market, focusing on how loan reform and the rise of AI use are reshaping default risk.

OngoingForecasting

Applying scenario analysis and probability estimation to forecast interest rates, commodity prices, earnings, and GDP prints.

OngoingPersonal Portfolio

Managing a personal long/short equity portfolio, writing full investment theses and valuations on each position to guide entry, sizing, and exit decisions.

2026Meetswatcher

A headless watchdog that babysits your Google Meet waiting room and pings your phone the second someone's trying to get in.

2026Bridgewater Forecasting Challenge

Ranked 26th of 1,350+ undergraduates forecasting macro variables like rates, credit spreads, and GDP.

2025Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge

Organized ASU's inaugural team and placed top 57 of 2,700+ teams worldwide.

2025Vanguard ETF Trading Challenge

Placed 1st by Sharpe Ratio and 2nd nationally, pitching an AI infrastructure ETF thesis to Vanguard's capital markets desk.

2025iOS Equity Research Tool

Developed an iOS app integrating the YFinance API and EDGARTools for scraping, three-statement modeling, and valuations.

Track My Portfolio (coming soon)

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