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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 cambalache » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:49 AM UTC

vulcan01 wrote: post #28

peterwoerner wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am making a comment just so I will see the project later. Swamped at work but in a week when I have some free time... I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas with presents under the tree.

There is a "favorites" button right under the submission title, which you can then access through "favorite submissions" in your profile.

A button I love, but for some irritating reason (I suppose because the lack of JS) takes you to the main favorites page every time you mark a post as favorite

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

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Post by mootzville » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:51 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by red2awn » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:54 AM UTC

throwawaysea wrote: post #31

How does an everyday person get the real time market data that this would theoretically need to invest to compete with a Bloomberg terminal?

Most brokerages provide real time data to clients.

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

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Post by aarreedd » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:00 AM UTC

Would you be interested in a PR for function to show market holidays? The terminal can pull the data from my site TradingHours.com.

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

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Post by xyst » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:01 AM UTC

This is amazing, thanks buddy.

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

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Post by riffraff » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:04 AM UTC

galoisscobi wrote: post #8

orliesaurus wrote: post #5

I wish I was more literate in these subjects, some of these terms - I am not familiar with such as `sma, rsi, macd, adx, bbands`

I'd recommend Investopedia to learn more about those terms. As someone with a robotics background, I used Investopedia extensively when I was taking Machine Learning for Trading (would highly recommend the course as well: https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-for-trading-... ) if that's something you're interested in.

One more nice thing about Investopedia: they have recently restructured their newsletter ("one term a day") to include references to current events.

That is really nice because it not only gives you something to learn but it also puts it in context.

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

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Post by nodesocket » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

sexy_year wrote: post #2

If 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…

Where is the market data (price, volume, etc) from? All open source projects related to stocks seem to use Yahoo quotes, which is essentially abandoned and not supported at all. No SLA or any indication of long term survival.

I found Alpaca[1] which looks decent in terms of a stock API and their upstream data provider Polygon.io[2] which looks even better but costs $199/mo for essentially per tick market data.

[1] https://alpaca.markets/ [2] https://polygon.io

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

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Post by Guest42 » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #39

sexy_year wrote: post #2

If 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…

Did you use floating point or fixed point numbers?

Great question, I remember inheriting some code that mixed the two and led to some “interesting” results.

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

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Post by TheAdamist » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:11 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by minsc__and__boo » Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 5:22 AM UTC

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 mean, the alternative costs $2,000/mo.