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I'm in the preliminary research stages of building a series of stock tools that allow users to do arbitrary searches on the intarwebs and then correlate the dat
by ascendant 16y ago
I'm in the preliminary research stages of building a series of stock tools that allow users to do arbitrary searches on the intarwebs and then correlate the data with historical price data on equities. I registered tinystocktools.com but nothing is up there yet as I'm just tinkering with what sort of free API's I have available to me at the moment before I start seriously building it.
There will be social aspects to it but I'm so tired of "social" being the main focus so it's definitely going to be more of a research/monitoring tool that begrudgingly lets you tap into your FB and twitter networks as part of it.
There will be a consumer-facing interface but I'd also like to create a nice streamlined API so people can leverage my platform as well.
- ascendant 16y agoIf anyone has any edge-case stock tools they'd like to see, let me know. I'd definitely like to create a "portfolio" of tools, hence the domain name.
- Donald 16y agoSo your tool correlates historical trends in search results with historical equity price trends?
- ascendant 16y agoThat might be where it goes. I started out by looking at news alerts on stock charts and thinking that I'd like to be able to define my own search terms for certain equities instead of just looking for news stories that mention the company or the ticker symbol directly. If I actually manage to get something serious up and running it will eventually turn into more of a data-mining service.
- ascendant 16y agoYou know, this is a nice idea I hadn't previously thought of. Naturally, Google never delivered on their "search trends" API. I have issued a suitably whiny tweet to Marissa Mayer.