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This is a very competitive field, with dozens of options. I have done extensive research myself in the past looking for screeners that provide enough functionality for my needs. I'm curious what problem you're attempting to solve vs. all the current entrants in this space? FWIW, I really like your UI + speed. Things that I have had trouble finding executed well elsewhere (besides the super expensive tools like Factse…

As someone who is completely ignorant about this field of work, can someone briefly explain to me what the difference between something like stockrow.com and google finance is?

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This is a nice piece of work. I don't trade stocks, so I don't screen them and can't speak to the market niche aspects other commenters have addressed but I'm impressed anyway :).

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This is a very competitive field, with dozens of options. I have done extensive research myself in the past looking for screeners that provide enough functionality for my needs. I'm curious what problem you're attempting to solve vs. all the current entrants in this space? FWIW, I really like your UI + speed. Things that I have had trouble finding executed well elsewhere (besides the super expensive tools like Factse…

That was a scratch your own itch project; just so you understand we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data in simplest possible form. For us problem is that all screeners (and tools) that are available are either slow, dumb, lack flexibility, are really hard to use or expensive (or all of the above combined). So w…

First off, neat tool! I see Finviz.com does much of the same for free.

> we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data

Respectfully, you do not require tools and data. You need to play a winners game and not pick stocks. Key to winning investing is to lower fees and taxes. Why?

> Contrary to their oft articulated goal of outperforming the market averages, investment managers are not beating the market: The market is beating them.

via "The Loser's Game" by Charles D. Ellis, written in 1995. www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v51.n1.1865

A related podcast with the legend Charlie Ellis (via Masters in Business radio podcast). Mr. Ellis is a former chairman of the Yale University Investments Office and CFA Institute and one-time director of Vanguard Group. He also is the author of "Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-17/charles-e...

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