Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you provide some more context on this?
It's a quote from "The Big Short".
I could watch The Big Short and Moneyball all day every day.
Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#122If you like stocks and are careful with the way you spend your money, you know how much time goes into buying shares of a stock. It’s tedious and I don’t have 24k for a Bloomberg terminal. Which led me to the idea during xmas break to spend the time creating my own terminal. I introduce you to “Gamestonk Terminal” (probably should’ve sent 1 tweet everyday to Elon Musk for copyrights permission eheh). In summary, the…
Impressive work, I didn't know could code!
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#123I’m not a coder. This looks awesome and I’d really love to try it.
Can anyone tell me how to get this working or point me to a set of instructions? I see the code and read me on GitHub but don’t know what to do next.
Thank you.
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
interesting: given that it may at any time hit that line of GPL'd code, your claim is that the rest of the code can be MIT licensed? i am not a lawyer but that sure seems like a borderline case at best.
The author can licence their source code however they want. The GPL doesn’t relicense other code either, it’s that the GPL asks you to additionally follow its terms for the whole resulting compiled distribution
Almost. The author can license their contributions with a more permissive license if they want (e.g. individual files can be MIT licensed) but the software as a whole must be licensed under the GPL.
I guess it boils down to whether the LICENSE file is meant to apply to the code in that repo or the software it produces when built. I would expect the latter, but I guess it's a bit ambiguous since we're having this discussion.
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you provide some more context on this?
Watch the movie "the big short". It's really good. This is from one of the scenes where too guys try to get a license. Although the manage a few million dollars, in order to get the license they should have even more. Or as it turns out the right connections.
the book is even better.
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#126How good does this work for non US stocks? I don't think you should invest all your money in stocks of just one nation.
You can trade shares of companies from all around the world on US stock exchange.
You can trade global depository receipts* of companies from all around the world.
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
findbssales.io is down.
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#128TradingView is more than good for most users
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> solve [...], otherwise everything will keep going up
This implies that markets going up is a problem that needs to be solved.
Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
#130I’m not a coder. This looks awesome and I’d really love to try it. Can anyone tell me how to get this working or point me to a set of instructions? I see the code and read me on GitHub but don’t know what to do next. Thank you.
From a quick glance, the first thing you'll need to do is install Python for your platform. There are a bunch available, but for Windows I usually recommend WinPython. This one should be good: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3... . Run that and select an empty folder to install it into. When it's done, open the folder and run the "WinPython Command Prompt".
Once you have that, download the code (green button "Download as ZIP") and extract it into your WinPython folder. Go into it by typing "cd GamestonkTerminal" into the terminal and press enter. The terminal should indicate you're now in that folder.
Once there, run the following command: "pip -r install". This wil take some time to complete, during which you can follow the links in the "API Keys" section of the Readme and follow whatever steps they require for you to get an API key (probably have to register an account, create an "application" and create a key - it'll usually be a long random-looking string of characters).
Once you have the keys, edit the "config_terminal.py" using notepad or preferably Notepad++ and put the corresponding keys where "REPLACE_ME" is at the end of each line (keep the quotes!).
If you've done all that, go back to the command prompt from before and run "python ganestonk_terminal.py". The terminal should be running.