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Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies

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Post by anonyonoor »

Hello Hacker News! My name is Anonyo, and I am a seventeen-year-old from Southeast Michigan. This is wallstreetlocal, my passion project for the last year (and a half). I've posted this before, but I've finally open-sourced this entire project, so I thought I'd post it again.

Heres the short pitch.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States. Companies whose holdings surpass $100 million though, are required to file a special type of form: the 13F form. This form, filed quarterly, discloses the filer's holdings, providing transparency into their investment activities and allowing the public and other market participants to monitor them.

The problem though, is that these holdings are often cumbersome to access, and valuable analysis is often hidden behind a paywall. Through wallstreetlocal, the SEC's 13F filers become more accessible and open.

By exploring the website (and the code), you can see the resources I used, check out some notable money managers I listed, and download any data that suits you. All for free. (Note, the mobile site likely needs work.)

I made this project to better democratize SEC filings, and also to get some experience on my hands. I love computers, and one day hope to get involved with startups. In the comments, I'd appreciate any and all advice, as well as feedback on how to improve the site.

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

Feedback is: by making this an npm thing, you reduce the pool of people that will use this.

This should really be a lib that takes a folder of 13F forms and outputs a csv, or something like this. That's it. No need for webapps or whatever.

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Post by cobertos »

Dang, I saw the name and hoped it was a map-based app that showed you ownership of things around you (further intriguing me because I don't believe such data exists at a local scale anyway).

Great project though! Opening up these sort of semi-encumbered datasets is what keeps humans well informed

I'm from MI as well and always wondered about deeper datasets for watching money and influence change hands

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Post by bklyn11201 »

Lots of competition here as services like WhaleWisdom are quite powerful at the basics around 13F.

Some ideas:

* Cluster the 13Fs into buckets. Performance buckets and volatility buckets and aggressiveness buckets. * Build model portfolios that blend holdings from the best performers. * Do some basic regime analysis and find which 13F filers perform best during the various regimes.

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Post by seanhunter »

Nice job! Working on things is really the only way to get better and this is a great project to sink your teeth into.

My advice is: Keep working, keep learning. If you love computers and want to work for a startup you absolutely have what it takes to make that happen. And if there are no startups near you which are right for you, you can found your own.

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