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coffeejay

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    Performance Predictions | Mobile/Front-End Engineering Role| Atlanta, GA| FULLTIME| ONSITE/REMOTE WELCOME| Check out our flagship fantasy game: https://www.myprizepicks.com Love sp…

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    Comment #8504901

    Thanks! Yes, definitely, right now it is just opinions but we do want to analyze for actual sentiment (bullish vs bearish).

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    Comment #8504900

    We're in the process of building a backtest for our ratings. We'll be writing about how they perform soon.

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    Comment #8504698

    Agree with your point on the options spreads, but we wanted to gear our focus towards solely stock investments since that's the majority of the retail investor population. You're r…

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    Comment #8504672

    Thanks for the kind words! Glad you find it useful. Shoot me an email at jay@capp.io if you ever have more feedback.

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    Comment #8504647

    haha love the reference :)

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    Comment #8504103

    We're pulling as much free data as we can but have plans to transition onto a paid data source as soon as we can.

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    Comment #8504081

    Thanks for the feedback. We're trying to serve the less educated investor so we take basic fundamental analysis and automate it while making the insights more accessible to someone…

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    Comment #8504040

    It is meant for individual stocks as of now. We're hoping it serves pain points for retail investors who need some hand holding when it comes to investing smarter.

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    Comment #8504005

    We're working on taking dividends into account since it is a huge factor when picking stocks.

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    Comment #8005585

    Thanks for the catches. We're still refining our data sources so we'll look into these.

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    Comment #8005548

    We're pooling a lot of disparate sources (Yahoo, Morningstar, NASDAQ, etc.)

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    Comment #8005472

    This is very interesting - thanks for pointing it out. I think one way we're working on being competitive is the breadth and depth of our research. Rather than just fundamental dat…

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    Comment #8005365

    Thanks for the catch!

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    Comment #8005235

    Still very early stage, so we're working on collecting more data. Meanwhile, you can inspect sales growth on the financials - ex. 'Income statement for $TSLA'. If you're interested…

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    Comment #8005159

    Private datasets is brilliant, great idea. As of now, updates aren't available but definitely could be in the future. We'd love to chat more and get some feedback! My email is jay@…

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    Comment #8005084

    Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely looking into interfacing with EDGAR as well as getting rid of the 'cashtag'. Mutual fund data is a great idea too - shouldn't be too diffi…

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    Comment #8004948

    Fundamentally, PennyWhale is targeted at a different market. While Bloomberg is tremendously powerful, it's also very expensive. We think there's an opportunity for the retail inve…

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    Comment #7589611

    I've never seen a more irrelevant promotional video.

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    Comment #6802768

    Very cool and creative. People need to stop getting butthurt on this site.