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Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
- vthallam 6y agoThis is data from the last 24 hours until it went Private.
- chovybizzass 6y agoits back open now.
- vthallam 6y agoYes, started parsing the comments and updating the dashboard!
- Skiboy89 6y agoVery useful! Thanks :) Would be even better if you could see how the stocks move on the leaderbord (/trending stocks). Just a suggestion.
- el_isma 6y agoPretty sure many common words are not being filtered out. For example, EOD (usually "End of day") is "Wells Fargo Global Dividend Opportunity Fund". I can guarantee no WSBer is going to buy such a "classic" investment.
- nostrademons 6y agoAlso PUMP, NOW, OPEN, TD (probably as in TD Ameritrade), RIDE, etc. Shows some of the pitfalls of naive text mining.
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- giarc 6y agoI searched a bunch of the symbols from the top of the list. Basically any outside of well known GME, AMC, BB, NAKD, NOK, it's all just false positives.
- LeegleechN 6y agoOPEN is a tough one because it's also a recently listed growth stock SPAC which is exactly the sort of stock this crowd would like.
- ir193 6y agoand NET?
- vthallam 6y agoSome more context on this project: Like most I guess, I definitely felt a lot of FOMO when I see news about stocks that went up by 100% and option traders who are making a lot of money, I personally know a few. I didn't like how I am getting to know about these trades, until they are on the top. Stocktwits and few other websites do some good work in signal boosting, up and coming stocks, but sometimes the volume is too low for people to pick it up. Reddit has been a great community for all things financial, so I turned to the OG community, r/wallstreetbets to see what are they talking about and make a real time leaderboard out of it. I am using a plain string matching(using a Trie of all stock tickers) with some context of using $ in the comments, so there could be some everyday words that slipped into the list, but the top of them are very obvious($AMC, $GME etc). I also got this domain(stonks.news) last year, planning to build some tools I would personally use over next few months and may be the community would like them too. Appreciate any suggestions or comments on what would you want to see in fintech(charts, alerts about earnings etc).
- ionwake 6y agoThis is great, thanks for posting. Can I ask if there is a simple API query I can send a request to? I am building a mega project (which will probably never see light of day - happy to share with you privately) which could probably maybe benefit knowing this info - cheers
- vthallam 6y agoNot yet atm, but send me an email at letstalkalgorithms@gmail.com and we can talk.
- hammock 6y agoWhat's the window of time used here and how frequently is it updated?
- vthallam 6y agoThe prices are lagging by a min, counts/popularity is updated in real time(you need to refresh though). I am planning to add websocket soon.
- niksyyy 6y agoThis is very useful! Thanks!
- EForEndeavour 6y agoThe common words which happen to match stock tickers offer a hilarious glimpse into the wallstreetbets gestalt and the current fury over trading platforms arbitrarily blocking users from buying but not selling: PUMP APPS PEAK RIDE WOW CALM CRY SITE MOD SON K
- Ragnis 6y agoThis could probably be at least somewhat mitigated by checking whether the surrounding words are also in all caps.
- airstrike 6y agoWhat's next? SPACs with tickers HODL and LMAO?
- SomewhatLikely 6y agoLMAO is indeed a spac, HODL appears to be a ticker for a bitcoin company on the Canadian stock exchange.
- airstrike 6y ago> LMAO is indeed a spac I had no idea, LMAO! I suppose ROFL is still available
- brundolf 6y agoFantastic domain name
- dharmab 6y agoYou might want to right-justify the numeric columns to more easily compare.
- giantg2 6y agoI thought they already had a bot that posts stats on mentions in the daily thread? Also, you need to look at why it's being mentioned. Something that you want to buy puts on may be popular, but it's a different play than just buying shares or calls.
- bigpumpkin 6y agoWould love to see "trending" stocks that see the greatest increases in popularity over the last 24 hours/ week, etc.
- _trampeltier 6y agoGoogle News also loves 24 hour, it seems. All "news" about Gamestop is like 24 hours old or older. I almost never use Google News, so I can't say if that's just normal (hm, news, just older than 24 hours ..).
- dnadler 6y agoNot to hijack or anything, but I had a similar idea[0]. I wonder how many other projects like these are out there? [0] https://isthisastonk.com https://isthisastonk.com
- vthallam 6y agolooks nice and clean. yeah pretty sure it's a popular idea atm haha.
- tnel77 6y agoWhen it says “top leaderboard,” over what timeframe is this calculated? Does the list update based on comments from the last 24 hours, for example?
- vthallam 6y agoIt's based of a rolling 24h window. This gets updated in real time from r/wsb comments;
- monkeydust 6y agoWould be fun to create an index out of this. Weight on popularity. Track on the top of the page.
- filoleg 6y agoNot the same as what you are describing, but kinda similar. They have already made something like this, but for a sub-niche, instead of the overall weighted WSB popularity index. Some WSB users created a BECKY index, that contains typical companies a "Becky" would know about, like Starbucks, Lululemon, Ulta, etc. And I have been observing regular updates to how that index has been performing. Surprisingly enough, it is performing great.
- alasdair_ 6y ago>Some WSB users created a BECKY index, that contains typical companies a "Becky" would know about They tried a KAREN index too, but got tired of all the demands to speak to your manager.
- monkeydust 6y agoFunny, but seriously if BlackRock found out there would be an iShares Becky ETF in a month with a 1% mangement fee.
- waiseristy 6y agoThese just seems like a list of failing companies. GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry?
- airstrike 6y agoDefine "failing"
- waiseristy 6y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514822/amc-theaters-cash-movies-delays-closing-pandemic-debt-regal https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514822/amc-theaters-ca... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop?oldformat=true#Decline_(2016%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop?oldformat=true#Declin... Blackberry probably not considered "failing" but, Gamestop, and AMC. I don't know how else to define their position
- jabroni_salad 6y agoThat is a correct observation. The mainstay feature of WSB is making 'yolo' margin trades, so it's weighted towards companies that are in sink or swim mode and who will soon have an earnings call or some other major event.
- xutopia 6y agoThat's because hedge fund managers severely shorted those stocks. If you buy all the shorted stocks you get to name your price when the shorts come due.
- eps 6y agoWhere do you source the next earnings dates? From a quick skim some appears to be off.
- vthallam 6y agoI got some from NASDAQ and a few other websites. Mind sharing examples, so I can fix them.
- soared 6y agoThis is really cool and super valuable. Tools like this are often acquired by bigger companies. A short description paragraph at the top would be nice - I’d like to send this to a friend without needing to explain what it is. Market cap would be a nice addition to the table so we can see size. Maybe some measure of volatility too.
- brd 6y agoThis makes me uneasy. The fact that there will be regulatory investigations should also concern you since a solution like this could easily be implicated in misleading retail investors. Simple string matching isn't going to cut it, you really need a decent NLP based implementation. There should be weighing mechanisms to avoid bots surfacing stocks that don't actually represent the interest of WSB. The site should be crystal clear about the time period this is sourced from. And most importantly, please put a disclaimer about what it is, how it's working, and why it shouldn't be considered financial advice.
- anonAndOn 6y agoThis is the way.
- thestu 6y agoWould be cool to see this in bar graph form, broken down by day.
- gscho 6y agoEveryone here seems to be complaining about how some tickers are wrong due to naive matching. If you're smart, you will look at this list for tickers that you don't recognize and then go try and view DD on /r/wsb. If you find some new DD that is good you might find yourself a really good stock play. Thanks for sharing!
- vkdelta 6y ago502 bad gateway. Please fix it
- vthallam 6y agoFixed it. Was running a basic set up, should be working now
- jcims 6y agoFWIW 502 Bad Gateway