[HN Gopher] Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side...
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Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Author : blakbelt78
Score : 79 points
Date : 2020-04-14 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (eduardosasso.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (eduardosasso.co)
| brentis wrote:
| Nice. I need a source API for short interest... ideas?
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| From all the API's I've looked at IEX Cloud seems the most
| comprehensive with a generous free tier https://www.iexcloud.io
| monkeydust wrote:
| That looks really good even on paid plans. Anyone using?
| Reliable, accurate.. .?
| akiselev wrote:
| You can get access to some of IEX's data for free with higher
| limits than IEX's free tier by opening an account with
| Alpaca. That gives you access to polygon.io as well, which
| doesn't limit API requests (Your API ID is used as the auth
| token for the polygon.io API).
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| The thing with Alpaca and Polygon I think is that their
| most affordable plans are only for personal use I believe.
| valuearb wrote:
| Do you adjust returns for dividends?
|
| That's always been a bugaboo of mine as it makes a big difference
| over decade+ time frames.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Yeah, I'm tracking adjusted closing points.
| readme wrote:
| Awesome project, I am sure it will help me lose lots of money.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Github link for anyone interested in checking the code
| https://github.com/eduardosasso/bullish
| tinyhouse wrote:
| Very cool! I signed up. I was wondering if you did some research
| before picking sendgrid. I see their free tier has a limit of 100
| emails a day after the first month. Their 100K/month is $15/month
| which is not bad I guess.
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| starpilot wrote:
| buy high sell low? shouldn't it be the opposite?
| brentis wrote:
| He trades Puts...ha
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| That was just to make fun
| unixhero wrote:
| I for one, went ahead and signed up!
| jldugger wrote:
| I appreciate the effort, especially the free tier only approach,
| but... my framework for data collection and reporting: what
| behavior, if any, do I expect to happen as a result of data? If
| the answer is none, there is no point in the email / report /
| pagerduty alert.
|
| > The idea is for the mailing list to go out every weekday before
| the market opens so you can be informed enough to decide if it's
| worth paying close attention to the market on any given day and
| make some moves.
|
| Looks like the behaviors this information is intended to induce
| is:
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| 1. Gather more data more frequently (reload WSJ / Y! finance?
| front page?) 2. Make more trades ("Buy High, Sell Low")
|
| If SP500 futures moving but markets are closed, what action could
| you possibly undertake profitably? Market open is a special
| auction you can't really arbitrage like that, so you'd be hoping
| for intraday moves? Are these the behaviors you _want_ to be
| inducing? Should retail investors be making trades during times
| of high volatility?
|
| I suspect no; retail investors will buy into rallies and sell
| into slumps, exactly the behavior Bullish's tagline mocks.
| jrs235 wrote:
| This looks cool. However, am I the only one that first saw
| Bullish^ and thought it was really Bullshi^, in other words a
| slightly censored Bullshit? Especially if reading the motto "Buy
| high sell low" quickly all at once.
| dominotw wrote:
| I thought i was the only. My brain keeps auto-completing
| bullish to bullshit.
| bluetwo wrote:
| "Buy high, sell low"... isn't that the OPPOSITE of what an
| investor wants to do?
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| LOL. That's just me making fun out of it.
| starpilot wrote:
| It's a really bald joke, like naming a driving school
| something about crashing. People are just like huh?
| saadalem wrote:
| Beautiful project, I like this idea.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Thank you! Trying it out to see if it's something useful to
| more people. I have a couple of ideas that I would like to add
| in the future.
| cdiamand wrote:
| Just signed up and looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
|
| We recently launched an investing newsletter at
| https://topstonks.com (just got our first paying customer
| yesterday), which tracks the social sentiment angle of a few
| weird places on the internet - WallstreetBets and 4chan.
|
| We're definitely still learning the ropes, but Let me know if you
| ever want to talk shop!
| sreenug wrote:
| Super cool. Thanks for doing this
| lostmsu wrote:
| Show HN is missing, title is a click-baity, does not summarize
| the idea.
| bdcravens wrote:
| After reading the article, the title seems pretty accurate.
|
| OP did a Show HN a few hours ago:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867313
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| This article seemed to be a deep dive into how the project came
| to be.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Yep. That was the plan.
| calahad wrote:
| "Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project"
| --- seems like a pretty accurate summary to me
| SomaticPirate wrote:
| I'm curious why you used Yahoo finance instead of Alpha Vantage?
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Alpha Vantage API showed inaccurate results from time to time
| and their customer support is nonexistent.
| tunesmith wrote:
| I've noticed the same thing with Alpha Vantage, but I
| switched to Alpha Vantage because Yahoo turned off their
| public API. It's the Yahoo API available again now?
| readme wrote:
| I'm using it in a project with the yfinance python module.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| They have an undocumented one that you can check in the
| network tab on your browser. this is how the API looks like
| https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/%5EGSPC?i
| n...
| monkeydust wrote:
| Nice simple idea. It would be cool to see today's current email
| on the sign up page so people get idea of what to expect the next
| day in their inbox.
| blakbelt78 wrote:
| Yeah, I wanted to do that but I was expecting Sendgrid to
| provide that which they don't so I need to build something.
| It's on my TODO list. Thanks for the feedback.
| nonsapreiche wrote:
| wow very good idea! but better to see the next week email, to
| get an idea of what to expect the next week in the market
| megadethz wrote:
| I have a personal setup that does something similar to this using
| Huginn.
| mi100hael wrote:
| Neat project.
|
| For something more detailed with top headlines, big movers,
| earnings highlights, etc. I really recommend the "Wall Street
| Breakfast" newsletter from seekingalpha.com.
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