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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 TILMore »

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.

For someone new to ML for Trading, would you have any other courses or links to check out?

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

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Post by cambalache »

sevencolors wrote: post #67
nodesocket wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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] ht…

According to the docs it uses https://www.alphavantage.co/

He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.

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

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Post by pbourke »

ralusek wrote: post #72
TheAdamist wrote: post #49

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

Markets are garbage collected.

The market can leak memory longer than you can stay solvent. Or something.

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

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Post by emosenkis »

maximente wrote: post #13

this is nice - it looks like it's linked against at least one GPL lib (fuzzywuzzy) though, so the MIT license almost certainly isn't allowed. looks like there's only one usage though, the other is an unused import, so may be easy to change

It's written in Python... It never gets compiled or linked.

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

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Post by addajones »

mootzville wrote: post #42

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.

I wish I knew how to install it. I get so many errors and would be awesome if there was an easier way. I’m great at other things.. :/

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

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Post by remarkEon »

SilverRed wrote: post #57
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?

I'm not sure the everyday person actually can get or even handle real time data. I spoke to someone about 4 years ago who was doing it for their startup and they said they had serious problems handling the data volume. Talking about terabytes of data coming in per day. Typical DB systems fall apart under that kind of load.

I'd like to understand a bit more about how Bloomberg Terminals are set up from an infrastructure perspective. Apologies if you don't know anything about that, but the idea that there's just "so much data" that only a Bloomberg Terminal can handle it seems kind of suspect to me. Don't we have other options? Or is this all proprietary?

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

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Post by johnwyles »

cambalache wrote: post #73
sevencolors wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the docs it uses https://www.alphavantage.co/

He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.

I'm OK with it so long as it's something on GitHub, useful, and you can drop in replace it.
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