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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by kolinko »

aryc19 wrote: post #35
aheilbut wrote: post #25

on a serious note, koyfin is really very nice and does a better job than Bloomberg, at least for equities

It looks promising. I was going to create an account to try it but then I stopped. Their privacy policy states I would have to send an email to delete my account data. Why do people make it harder to remove an account when the sign up process so easy?

I have the same process on my site. The reason is that it is such a risky operation that you want to have a human in the middle as a safeguard from accidental deletion.

Account cancellations and so on are automatic of course, but anything that can’t be rolled back requires human input.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by [deleted] »

addajones wrote: post #77
mootzville wrote: post #42

This makes all the hours (months really) I've wasted on HackerNews worth it. Thanks! Edit: I should say, it's things like this that make up for the wasted time. I've seen several really interesting things on here over time.

I wish I knew how to install it. I get so many errors and would be awesome if there was an easier way. I’m great at other things.. :/

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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

cambalache wrote: post #73
sevencolors wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the docs it uses https://www.alphavantage.co/

He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.

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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by kolinko »

wyxuan wrote: post #54

The only thing that this shares with the bloomberg terminal is that it can do equities and is on a terminal. Sort of irks me because a bloomberg terminal can do so much more: level 2 data, trading capability, damn near instant news alerts, options, debt instrumentals + so much more - and I get it, this isn't meant for that same crowd and this is pretty well flushed out for a retail investor. But the comparison with t…

Brittanica also had much more than Wikipedia. And Unix could do much more than Linux.

This is how great open source begins.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by exdsq »

roddds wrote: post #92
cambalache wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am OK if it is something directly relevant to the topic and it is presented in a direct manner, but no, 99% of the time it is some disingenuous thing like this: "Hey guys you are talking about nuclear engineering, that made me wonder how fishes in my zone would be affected by a nearby nuclear plant . I use allmyfishes.com which seems to be a great site detailing all the fishes in the US, there is a free tier and go…

And it just happened again, in this same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260064

I think we need some sort of AI tool to identify these cases. I read a review on findbssales.io which says it could do exactly this, with a good payment model based on API calls.

Disclaimer, I built findbssales.io

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by csomar »

cambalache wrote: post #81
johnwyles wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm OK with it so long as it's something on GitHub, useful, and you can drop in replace it.

I am OK if it is something directly relevant to the topic and it is presented in a direct manner, but no, 99% of the time it is some disingenuous thing like this: "Hey guys you are talking about nuclear engineering, that made me wonder how fishes in my zone would be affected by a nearby nuclear plant . I use allmyfishes.com which seems to be a great site detailing all the fishes in the US, there is a free tier and go…

I don't think nodesocket is affiliated with the sites he linked, nor I find any links between the two?

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by soniman »

For stocks Bbg is overkill. A stock investor basically needs latest PR, SEC and earnings release info for his watchlist of stocks, which can be done using Feedly and Seeking Alpha. Alerts connected to the watchlists ("high volume on stock at new high in this watchlist") would be useful but I haven't found anything with that. Finviz is good for charts, although it doesn't have log charts (at least in the free version). That's basically it. Yahoo Finance was brilliant while it lasted.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by zymhan »

dan-robertson wrote: post #97
TheAdamist wrote: post #49

Should probably rewrite it in rust, to solve the markets memory leaks, otherwise everything will keep going up.

I realise this is a joke but there are economic reasons to expect stocks to go up in real terms on average in the long term. Investing in the long term is not a zero sum game.

No one here said anything to the contrary.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by teleforce »

The article on the potential of making the alternative to Bloomberg Terminal and the corresponding HN discussions [1][2].

[1]https://marker.medium.com/why-its-hard-to-kill-the-bloomberg...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23891161

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