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Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

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Post by tmoullet »

Hey Jay,

This is really cool. One idea is it would be great if you could interface with EDGAR and gather the links to the various financial statements. The EDGAR database search/navigation is horrendous.

As another commenter said, it would be great if it could detect the company name or at least the ticker without the $.

Also, a failed query subtracts from the guest query allotment. That doesn't seem ideal as I'm first learning how to phrase my requests.

Lastly, mutual fund data would be awesome. Morning star rating, fund performance, fund assets, etc.

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#12

Post by carlmcqueen »

timtamboy63 wrote: post #7
carlmcqueen wrote: post #4

Do you have to use one of their example questions for a free demonstration? I asked one of the questions and it asked me to log in.

What did you ask? There are a few premium features right now (holdings data, interactive financials). If you want to make an account I'll give you a free upgrade :)

I put in What are the holdings for $WF as an example. I wanted to see one of the big banks and how it showed versus yahoo finance/bloomberg sources.

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#13

Post by coffeejay »

tmoullet wrote: post #11

Hey Jay, This is really cool. One idea is it would be great if you could interface with EDGAR and gather the links to the various financial statements. The EDGAR database search/navigation is horrendous. As another commenter said, it would be great if it could detect the company name or at least the ticker without the $. Also, a failed query subtracts from the guest query allotment. That doesn't seem ideal as I'm fir…

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 difficult to tie in.

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#14

Post by drglitch »

timtamboy63 wrote: post #10
drglitch wrote: post #9

Pretty interesting effort, but a bit of constructive criticism: - none of your query results have a date attached! While pretty, an earnings number without a date is like a chart without an axis. - Just how natural can the queries be? "$AAPL sales estimates" did not return anything. Neither did "$CAT cost of capital". "quarterly $CAT earnings growth" gave me a single EBIDTA number", e.g. not what asked. Is it easier…

Would love your email for feedback :) Or just shoot me an email at chintan@pennywhale.com. Thanks!

Will shoot you an email! One more thing: you seem to be hotlinking to images on nasdaq, e.g. apple pe ratio shows http://www.nasdaq.com//charts/aapl_per.jpeg - what determines is a datapoint is presented as a hotlink/image vs a number (like apple's price to book?).

Aside from as-of date on each datapoint, ideally you should provide attribution as well (anyone who worked in finance knows that all data sources provide different data for same query at any given time :)

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#15

Post by malchow »

This is intriguing. Large implications when applied to private datasets ---- think Factiva, etc. There the data schema differ so wildly that natural language can really make it more useful. Publicly traded equities is the facile, simple place to start, obviously.

Can I spin off a search and get pinged on updates?

Love to learn more.

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#16

Post by coffeejay »

malchow wrote: post #15

This is intriguing. Large implications when applied to private datasets ---- think Factiva, etc. There the data schema differ so wildly that natural language can really make it more useful. Publicly traded equities is the facile, simple place to start, obviously. Can I spin off a search and get pinged on updates? Love to learn more.

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@pennywhale.com

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#17

Post by jwblackwell »

Congratulations on launching! Cool idea and a good start. I think since you're targeting the non-professional market here, you need to focus on user experience a bit. Some feedback:

- Found it a bit slow, but guess that's partially the HN effect.

- As per above, I'd make the queries ajax rather than refreshing the whole page every search, should improve the UX a fair bit.

- I expected autopredict when I started to type $... to predict a ticker, would be nice to guess company names as well if no ticker is entered. Probably an essential feature for non-pros.

- You need a clear signup link. And the redirect when you run out of free credits should go to the signup page with small link to login, not the other way around.

- Also look at highcharts.com, they have a stock chart product as well. Hands down the best JS charts, mobile friendly, highly customisable etc.

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#18

Post by willyum »

polskibus wrote: post #8

It's a pity you have to specify a ticker. I was really hoping it can do the hard work for me. https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...

hahaha we'll add an easter egg just for you ;)

perhaps check out http://www.premise.com/ or https://kensho.com/

Re: Show HN: PennyWhale – Use natural language to search for any financial data

#20

Post by coffeejay »

nrao123 wrote: post #19

I didnt get any results for this query: https://www.pennywhale.com/app/queries/execute?utf8=%E2%9C%9...

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, shoot me an email at jay@pennywhale.com we'd love to make you a free premium account.
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