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Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

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Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#24
post #5

That is really cool. Keep up the good work, maybe add an API so I can test stock picking programs against your data ;)

In the works; probably not free :(

Why would you say :(? It is a great idea and people would and should pay for it. Fuck free.

Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#25
post #9

I'm currently at the top of your leaderboard after issuing nothing but buy orders for about 5 minutes. I didn't even read the charts. This confirms my opinion that chart reading is nonsense.

Drat. I tried the same trick, and I'm down to my last $10,000.

Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#26
post #9

I'm currently at the top of your leaderboard after issuing nothing but buy orders for about 5 minutes. I didn't even read the charts. This confirms my opinion that chart reading is nonsense.

"I realized technical analysis didn't work when I turned the charts upside down and didn't get a different answer." - Warren Buffett

still a cool little app.

Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#27
post #13
post #9

I'm currently at the top of your leaderboard after issuing nothing but buy orders for about 5 minutes. I didn't even read the charts. This confirms my opinion that chart reading is nonsense.

...or we've stumbled on a really good investment strategy: 1. buy a random stock 2. hold for 20 days 3. profit! currently #2 on leaderboard before I got bored. I wonder what the capital gains impact would be... I suppose it's rather like investing in an index fund, with a bit more volatility :)

Often times mechanical trading strategies discussed in papers that use fancy math and algorithms don't consistently beat buy and hold.

Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#28
post #5

That is really cool. Keep up the good work, maybe add an API so I can test stock picking programs against your data ;)

It'd be easier to just download CSV files of daily historical data from Yahoo Finance, or shell out $10-50/month and get quality realtime feeds.

Re: Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting".

#30
post #27
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...or we've stumbled on a really good investment strategy: 1. buy a random stock 2. hold for 20 days 3. profit! currently #2 on leaderboard before I got bored. I wonder what the capital gains impact would be... I suppose it's rather like investing in an index fund, with a bit more volatility :)

Often times mechanical trading strategies discussed in papers that use fancy math and algorithms don't consistently beat buy and hold.

You'd assume that the average algo strategy does worse, if only because it's an average portfolio plus extra transaction costs.
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