Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a Fugazi is?
Sorry, I can't resist.)
Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
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#42Do you guys have an API for queries?
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#43Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a Fugazi is? Sorry, I can't resist.)
haha love the reference :)
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#44Do you guys have an API for queries?
We've actually been considering making it available for others to use. Shoot me an email chintan@capp.io.
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#45Guys, this is awesome. Just wanted to say thank you. This is definitely very useful to me!
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#46Guys, this is awesome. Just wanted to say thank you. This is definitely very useful to me!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you find it useful. Shoot me an email at jay@capp.io if you ever have more feedback.
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#47Near 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…
I'm going to be more bearish than you and say that people who find stock research "overwhelming" as in the HN strapline shouldn't be investing in individual stocks at all (unless they get employer equity on a very favourable basis, or the individual stocks they're invested in are all ETFs)
That said, I do quite like the idea of an algorithm that hedges risk, but for the average person's retirement fund wouldn't that be best done with a proper fully diversified portfolio minus a few stocks whose performance is heavily correlated with your earning potential? If so wouldn't that be best as actual funds marketed at employees in particular industries rather than a software stock-selection tool.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Will do. Point about NFLX wasn't the drop -- stocks go down and it's almost always stair-steps up, elevator down. It was that literally just days before ER CNBC put an analyst on TV crowing about $600 PT. How many millions of dollars did that person lose for the total viewership of CNBC and other outlets that carried her advice? You read an analyst report from Goldman saying "we like apple going into the fall, you sh…
Agree with your point on the options spreads, but we wanted to gear our focus towards solely stock investments since that's the majority of the retail investor population.
You're right about AAPL being too expensive (back at $600) for the average investor and that's something we're beginning to focus on. We'd like to add more personalization so our recommendations take into account factors such as risk profile, age, account value, etc.
Again, our goal is to help less experienced investors make smarter investments over the long term and teach them "why" along the way.
Thanks for your feedback again! Definitely points we'll be taking into account.
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#49Above 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…
There are some people doing it right, though. Check out TastyTrade.com.
Your solution for retail investors who are getting burned in high beta tech stocks is to go put on a bunch of complicated options positions? That seems like kind of crazy advice. Maybe just buy some SPY and go do something more interesting than stare at options prices all day.
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#50It looks neat. Great job.
For market sentiment you are just showing tweets. How about if you just show if market sentiment is +ve or -ve?
I think you are taking only fundamental analysis into account to suggest buy or sell otherwise you would not suggest GPRO as a buy.