I've noticed the same thing with Alpha Vantage, but I switched to Alpha Vantage because Yahoo turned off their public API. It's the Yahoo API available again now?
We've had the paid plan with "premium" support. Inexistent and borderline rude. We just moved to IEX cloud for data (proper documentation, sandbox, etc).
You might consider the impact it has on potential customers. I can see how it's an in joke for r/wsb, but unless your target audience is only that community, it raises a red flag.
Came here to say this. It's great. I use it for my portfolio tracker - https://stockdaddy.io/ - it's quite powerful in terms of breadth of APIs and data available.
You can get access to some of IEX's data for free with higher limits than IEX's free tier by opening an account with Alpaca. That gives you access to polygon.io as well, which doesn't limit API requests (Your API ID is used as the auth token for the polygon.io API).
Yeah, I wanted to do that but I was expecting Sendgrid to provide that which they don't so I need to build something. It's on my TODO list. Thanks for the feedback.
This looks cool. However, am I the only one that first saw Bullish▲ and thought it was really Bullshi▲, in other words a slightly censored Bullshit? Especially if reading the motto "Buy high sell low" quickly all at once.
For something more detailed with top headlines, big movers, earnings highlights, etc. I really recommend the "Wall Street Breakfast" newsletter from seekingalpha.com.
Very cool! I signed up. I was wondering if you did some research before picking sendgrid. I see their free tier has a limit of 100 emails a day after the first month. Their 100K/month is $15/month which is not bad I guess.
Yeah, I've done some research and decided to go with Sendgrid because they are the only ones that offer API in their free tier. Their free marketing campaign plan offers 2k contacts + 6k emails month which should be plenty to start.
I appreciate the effort, especially the free tier only approach, but... my framework for data collection and reporting: what behavior, if any, do I expect to happen as a result of data? If the answer is none, there is no point in the email / report / pagerduty alert.
> The idea is for the mailing list to go out every weekday before the market opens so you can be informed enough to decide if it’s worth paying close attention to the market on any given day and make some moves.
Looks like the behaviors this information is intended to induce is:
1. Gather more data more frequently (reload WSJ / Y! finance? front page?)
2. Make more trades ("Buy High, Sell Low")
If SP500 futures moving but markets are closed, what action could you possibly undertake profitably? Market open is a special auction you can't really arbitrage like that, so you'd be hoping for intraday moves? Are these the behaviors you _want_ to be inducing? Should retail investors be making trades during times of high volatility?
I suspect no; retail investors will buy into rallies and sell into slumps, exactly the behavior Bullish's tagline mocks.
The point is for average investors not day traders to get an uncluttered view of the market before it opens so they can have an idea if a possible big swing is happening on any given day. I find it useful in my use case since email is the first thing I check in the morning.
Just signed up and looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
We recently launched an investing newsletter at https://topstonks.com (just got our first paying customer yesterday), which tracks the social sentiment angle of a few weird places on the internet - WallstreetBets and 4chan.
We're definitely still learning the ropes, but Let me know if you ever want to talk shop!
Damn, guess I should have written a blog post. Yesterday I launched the MVP of my stock news site http://stockqua.com with (eventual) goal to help people build up qualitative & quantitative analysis of stocks & industries to make better investing decisions.
Just an FYI, the Hey.com hyperlink in the post seems to be a relative path, just slapping it onto the end of the post route. All of the others work fine, it looks like you just need to add an `http(s)://` on the front and you'll be good.
In my experience from developing Backtest (https://backtest.curvo.eu), a backtesting tool for EU index investors, the hardest part has been finding good and reliable data that goes as far back in time as possible.
I only focus on index data so it's a bit easier but it's still hard. Lots of scraping, downloading and parsing CSVs, Excel sheets, some puppeteer magic...
Yeah, I'm trying to stay away from scrapping, parsing, and that whole mess. Right now I'm relying on Yahoo Finance undocumented API and possibly IEX Cloud in the future.
Nice, simple execution. I have a similar setup with Atom's daily premarket emails. One piece of feedback. Excluding the futures section, the centered text of the various timespans within the Performance section is harder to scan than left-aligned text or a 2x4 table would be.
Nice work mate! It's exciting turning your side projects into reality. Hopefully there will be thousands of subscribers in a year and you could make some good money out of it.
Thank you! Yes it is, I really enjoy trying to solve my own problems. SendGrid provides that signup form and it’s very limited, probably I’ll need to have a custom one at some point.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 183 ms ] threadOP did a Show HN a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867313
This article seemed to be a deep dive into how the project came to be.
I don't think you have to hang out on r/wsb to have an ounce of irony about wallstreet in you.
IEX is pretty good with the markets they give access to, so you should be able to find most symbols (or comparable) you're looking to track.
That’s always been a bugaboo of mine as it makes a big difference over decade+ time frames.
"Typoglycemia" is a real (if poorly understood and researched) human phenomenon, and it's definitely at play here: https://observer.com/2017/03/chunking-typoglycemia-brain-con...
For something more detailed with top headlines, big movers, earnings highlights, etc. I really recommend the "Wall Street Breakfast" newsletter from seekingalpha.com.
Update: $15/month is good for up to 50K emails. Not 100K as I initially said.
> The idea is for the mailing list to go out every weekday before the market opens so you can be informed enough to decide if it’s worth paying close attention to the market on any given day and make some moves.
Looks like the behaviors this information is intended to induce is:
1. Gather more data more frequently (reload WSJ / Y! finance? front page?) 2. Make more trades ("Buy High, Sell Low")
If SP500 futures moving but markets are closed, what action could you possibly undertake profitably? Market open is a special auction you can't really arbitrage like that, so you'd be hoping for intraday moves? Are these the behaviors you _want_ to be inducing? Should retail investors be making trades during times of high volatility?
I suspect no; retail investors will buy into rallies and sell into slumps, exactly the behavior Bullish's tagline mocks.
We recently launched an investing newsletter at https://topstonks.com (just got our first paying customer yesterday), which tracks the social sentiment angle of a few weird places on the internet - WallstreetBets and 4chan.
We're definitely still learning the ropes, but Let me know if you ever want to talk shop!
I only focus on index data so it's a bit easier but it's still hard. Lots of scraping, downloading and parsing CSVs, Excel sheets, some puppeteer magic...
Some sources that I use:
- MSCI data (https://www.msci.com/end-of-day-data-search)
- Financial Times website (e.g. https://markets.ft.com/data/indices/tearsheet/summary?s=SP5M...)
- Investing.com (e.g. https://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500)
- STOXX
- DAX
- FTSE for FTSE stock indexes (https://research.ftserussell.com/analytics/indexviewer/chart...)
- Yieldbook.com for FTSE bond indxes (https://www.yieldbook.com/m/home/index.shtml) - ICE website for ICE bond indexes
- ...
I'm constantly adding new indexes and sources (see https://backtest.curvo.eu/updates) but it's tough!
Some examples of what Backtest does:
- MSCI World: https://backtest.curvo.eu/portfolio/NoIgsgygwgkgBAdQPYCcA2AT...
- My portfolio: https://backtest.curvo.eu/portfolio/NoIgmg9gTghgdgcgM4AIAK0A...
If the author has any questions, just reach out to me! Happy to share my experiences.
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