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Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

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Remember, the stock market is just gambling. Fancy tools and triggers just let you kid yourself you know what you're doing. Unless you do it as a full time job, you probably should not ever directly trade individual stocks. What do you know that the pros do not?

At the end of the day, most individual investors feel a relationship with the brands and companies they love, and often times they express their support by buying shares. For any individual investor who owns single stock or likes do it themselves, there are very little tools to help you invest responsibly. Trigger is trying to take the emotion out of investing, as the pros do. As a former trader, this is the most important lesson when investing, to set rules, levels and events ahead of time to make your actions more disciplined. We encourage investors to trade via triggers, instead of being driven by fear or greed.

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

#22

Remember, the stock market is just gambling. Fancy tools and triggers just let you kid yourself you know what you're doing. Unless you do it as a full time job, you probably should not ever directly trade individual stocks. What do you know that the pros do not?

> Remember, the stock market is just gambling.

That's quite a claim, where's the evidence to back it? There are funds[1] that have consistently beat the market every year for decades, their very existence disproves the gambling hypothesis.

> What do you know that the pros do not?

You're not playing the same game as the pro's so it doesn't really matter. Hedge fund/mutual fund managers are playing with millions/billions of dollars which requires massive liquidity and carefully planned entries and exits over a period of time in order to not move the price too much; that's a completely different game than what a retail investor plays and that means retail investors can chase profits in areas too small for the big guys to play in.

In other words, you don't have to beat the big guys, you're not fishing in the same pond nor playing the same game. Retail investors can enter and exit trades instantly without having to worry about liquidity or slippage, two concerns that dominate the big guys strategies. When you're small, you're nimble in a way the big guys can't be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

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Hey everyone! I’m co-founder and CEO of Trigger Finance, which I’m thrilled to share with you today :) Trigger is simplifying the world of stock investing by reducing everything to an “IF THIS, THEN THAT” statement, called a ‘trigger’. You can create triggers to track all sorts of things happening in the market -- for example, if a stock drops suddenly, or if Apple announces earnings at a certain level, or if the Fed…

I really like the idea of the app. Unfortunately, the "Get Trigger on your phone" link takes you to the App Store, and my phone runs Android. I suspect an Android client is in the works? How about a web client too? In the mean time, I'd recommend interested non-iOS users to check out Quantopian [1], which is not nearly as simple and accessible, but gives you the power to do real algorithmic trading. [1] https://www.q…

That's too bad, but glad I read the comments. It's becoming pretty rare to see a product "launch" without having an app for both sides

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

#24

Hey everyone! I’m co-founder and CEO of Trigger Finance, which I’m thrilled to share with you today :) Trigger is simplifying the world of stock investing by reducing everything to an “IF THIS, THEN THAT” statement, called a ‘trigger’. You can create triggers to track all sorts of things happening in the market -- for example, if a stock drops suddenly, or if Apple announces earnings at a certain level, or if the Fed…

do you have integration with IB ?

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

#25

Hey everyone! I’m co-founder and CEO of Trigger Finance, which I’m thrilled to share with you today :) Trigger is simplifying the world of stock investing by reducing everything to an “IF THIS, THEN THAT” statement, called a ‘trigger’. You can create triggers to track all sorts of things happening in the market -- for example, if a stock drops suddenly, or if Apple announces earnings at a certain level, or if the Fed…

My first thought was that once trigger has enough users, some people might pay to get access to the rule database. That way you could predict what trigger is going to do under certain circumstances, or maybe what needs to happen for certain outcomes.

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

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post #24

Hey everyone! I’m co-founder and CEO of Trigger Finance, which I’m thrilled to share with you today :) Trigger is simplifying the world of stock investing by reducing everything to an “IF THIS, THEN THAT” statement, called a ‘trigger’. You can create triggers to track all sorts of things happening in the market -- for example, if a stock drops suddenly, or if Apple announces earnings at a certain level, or if the Fed…

do you have integration with IB ?

not yet, Robinhood and IB are next up on the list for us!

Re: Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market

#28

Hey everyone! I’m co-founder and CEO of Trigger Finance, which I’m thrilled to share with you today :) Trigger is simplifying the world of stock investing by reducing everything to an “IF THIS, THEN THAT” statement, called a ‘trigger’. You can create triggers to track all sorts of things happening in the market -- for example, if a stock drops suddenly, or if Apple announces earnings at a certain level, or if the Fed…

What is the latency of your data feed?

How do you mitigate the latency between the stock exchanges, and the user's location + latency introduce via mobile devices?

Thanks!

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