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Please note that "cappio" means "loop" (as in, for hanging people) in Italian. Not sure if it's deliberate, but perhaps it's good for you to know :)
Near as I can tell, this site is basically Google finance with a bunch of nicely color coded indicators of various components of the stock. It looks pretty, prettier than google finance. At a glance, I can easily tell whether you think I should buy or sell that stock. This is nothing but stock market info porn. All you are doing is using web design to convince me to take seriously your opinions on whether GS or TWTR…
Thanks for the feedback. We're trying to serve the less educated investor so we take basic fundamental analysis and automate it while making the insights more accessible to someone who is less financially literate. It's interesting that you bring up personalization too because we're headed in that direction with customizing reports and creating recommendations based on factors like risk profile, age, and retirement p…
To put it simply, whether some guy thinks you have a product or not, you definitely do. Its not just stock market info porn, or a fancy web design over google finance, rather its as important as a new 'indicator', i.e. it does(could) have the right substance.
The problem I have is, you may have built a better mouse trap here, but for the last 20 years the retail investor -- your customer -- has been the mouse. And few people in your industry acknowledge that.
The stock market has a built-in upward bias of 3-5 percent. It represents the premium over the risk free rate that entices people to invest in equity instead of debt (bonds, treasuries). So retail investors don't "lose" money but they have underperformed the market to a extent that is IMO criminal. Literally.
All of the education, services and tools (like yours) are teaching investing all wrong. Price targets? Made up numbers by analysts? What were the price targets on Netflix before it fell 100 handles (and then clawed half of it back)? The day before the drop CNBC said $600/share. How about GTAT? Jim Cramer loved that stock.
There are some people doing it right, though. Check out TastyTrade.com. These guys have made a massive investment in teaching the retail investor techniques for investing that don't rely on the magic of technical analysis or analyst prophecy. And even more awesome -- they built a trading platform that is free to use and provides tooling to support their principles, which are basically: do many small, high probability trades to give yourself many independent occurrences to smooth statistical variance, and let duration work for you. The platform is Dough.com
I'm obviously not affiliated, just a fan. And I don't mean to take away anything from what you've built. But I think we're just doing it wrong and i want to see that changed.
Near as I can tell, this site is basically Google finance with a bunch of nicely color coded indicators of various components of the stock. It looks pretty, prettier than google finance. At a glance, I can easily tell whether you think I should buy or sell that stock. This is nothing but stock market info porn. All you are doing is using web design to convince me to take seriously your opinions on whether GS or TWTR…
> If a person expects lots of medical care later in life, suggest them a portfolio heavy on medical stocks so that if their expenses go up, their investment does too. How is what an individual spends in medical care correlated with medical stocks?
Above all, congrats on shipping. The problem I have is, you may have built a better mouse trap here, but for the last 20 years the retail investor -- your customer -- has been the mouse. And few people in your industry acknowledge that. The stock market has a built-in upward bias of 3-5 percent. It represents the premium over the risk free rate that entices people to invest in equity instead of debt (bonds, treasurie…
I'd love to hear more about your thoughts. Think you could shoot me an email at chintan@capp.io?
I got a generic "Application Error" message when I searched "tsla". The website seems to be running very slowly so maybe just a timeout?
Definitely a timeout unfortunately. We're bumping up dynos, so hopefully it'll get better!
- Adding caching static assets/images/etc (Not sure how this is done on Heroku but fairly straight forward with Nginx or Apache). Currently, your assets are taking a full 6 seconds to serve.
- Possibly serving your static homepage etc from one server/Heroku instance and your functional app from another so you don't put the stress of traffic on a homepage on the app server as well.
Edit: Adding this link to be a bit more helpful. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-caching-ruby-rail...
Near as I can tell, this site is basically Google finance with a bunch of nicely color coded indicators of various components of the stock. It looks pretty, prettier than google finance. At a glance, I can easily tell whether you think I should buy or sell that stock. This is nothing but stock market info porn. All you are doing is using web design to convince me to take seriously your opinions on whether GS or TWTR…
> If a person expects lots of medical care later in life, suggest them a portfolio heavy on medical stocks so that if their expenses go up, their investment does too. How is what an individual spends in medical care correlated with medical stocks?
If medical costs and the value of medical stocks are correlated, then one can hedge that underlying medical short by going long medical stocks. I don't actually know if that correlation holds. I should have been clearer that I was guessing it might.
I actually don't know the right sort of hedging for medicine - would be great to have some help with that.
I get an error when I try it using BAC http://www.capp.io/queries/new?query=bac&button=
Above all, congrats on shipping. The problem I have is, you may have built a better mouse trap here, but for the last 20 years the retail investor -- your customer -- has been the mouse. And few people in your industry acknowledge that. The stock market has a built-in upward bias of 3-5 percent. It represents the premium over the risk free rate that entices people to invest in equity instead of debt (bonds, treasurie…
Totally see what you're saying, and we definitely want to get into the educational aspect at some point. But Netflix fell because of earnings, and GTAT was a fundamentally horrible company (our site wouldn't have recommended it). From what we've seen, retail investors tend to lose money when they invest with their gut, and that's the biggest issue. They hear some news and go and buy that company. They don't know how…
You read an analyst report from Goldman saying "we like apple going into the fall, you should buy apple." This is back when Apple is $500-600 a share. That's just the worst advice. You know what would be a lot better for a small investor? If you're bullish on Apple, go buy the at-the-money call spread. It will cost you a fraction of the share price and let you capture $5, 10, 20+ in upside if Apple moves up (depending on how much you want to pay for the spread). Anyway, this is obviously a subject I'm passionate about :)
Congrats again, guys. Enjoy the spike today, HN front page is still the 52 week high on all of our traffic charts!