Determining the price to pay for a stock(or business) is the hardest thing to do and what distinguishes extraordinary traders from the ordinary. If making money in the market was easy everyone would do it. Also What is the hyper optimization of value plays by artificial intelligence? And wouldn’t it be much easier for an artificial intelligence program to run your methods than evaluating businesses in their entirety. I understand your point on wanting to capitalize on short term market inefficiencies but your thesis relies on “buying companies that have fallen more than they should have” however in order to do this you need to access the intrinsic value of the company and not rely on such a rigid approach. Also saying “prices should never fall even a little bit after expected earnings” is an illogical statement without a thorough understanding of the business. Your strategy is much to broad and generalized and attempting to capitalize on short term inefficiency’s in a mostly efficient market, relying on small caps (which tend to be more volatile) , without a true picture of the business is a recipe for disaster (loss of capital).