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it says "In thousands, except share, per share and customer data" - so it may be 28 thousand accounts. May have misread this though https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/…

Yep that's a fair comment, we built it because we were sharing so much stuff that it became difficult to remember who had sent which link, and what exactly was in the article. Plus…

hi yeah that was a real pain for me. There are 2 namespaces in use, http://www.xbrl.org/uk/gaap/core/2009-09-01/ and http://www.xbrl.org/uk/cd/business/2009-09-01 , either of which…

sorry about that - what were you searching for?

This is the end result of some nasty XML-munging of the newly-available Companies House data sets ( http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/dataProducts.sh... ). I know you ca…

Currently it's daily. One of the possible future extensions is into intra-day but it brings a whole load of extra technical problems. Honestly the problems look really fun, things …

we've all been salivating about the potential for an 'Optimise' button. It would be really cool, it has a few wrinkles though, e.g. there might not be a unique maximum solution, so…

Our understanding of the Yahoo/google T&Cs was that we couldn't aim to profit from their data ( http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/tos ). We may be being overcautious but we didn't wa…

yep you're totally right, but hopefully it's still useful!

yeah that caught us out - we found that even though the data is freely available from those sources, you're not allowed to include that data in a commercial app :-(

We think backtesting is too difficult, this is our attempt to make it much easier and more fun - let us know what you think!