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Some 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

Some 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 ago
This 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 ago
  Not yet atm, but send me an email at letstalkalgorithms@gmail.com and we can talk.
hammock 6y ago
What's the window of time used here and how frequently is it updated?
- vthallam 6y ago
  The 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.
Stevvo 6y ago
Nice one. I thought about making this earlier today. Now I don't have to!
slg 6y ago
There should probably be some type of sentiment analysis on this as simply being talked about isn't always a good sign. However it would probably need to be customized specifically to WSB since they have their own language and terminology.
- Ithildin 6y ago
  Agreed. It would be nice if you could click on one and see the top X most recent mentions, or at least the links to those comments.
  - dillondoyle 6y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/search/?q=gme&sort=top&restrict_sr=on&t=day https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/search/?q=gme&sort=t...
adammunich 6y ago
Are you matching only upper-case strings? If not, that could help filter out some common words.
- deleted 6y ago
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newacct583 6y ago
> Stocktwits and few other websites do some good work in signal boosting, up and coming stocks PLEASE people, look at what you are doing. If you want to "boost" a "signal" to get people to make trades the way you want them to, you are presumptively engaged in market manipulation. Stop this madness. I know it's popular to think that big evil hedge funds do these tricks too, and imagine yourself as a hero. But that's not really the way they work[1]. And it's not right when they do it, and it's not right here either. Yes, people go to jail for stuff like this. I'll take my downvotes now. But this really is just mass hysteria in our community right now. [1] And to the extent it is, they tend to have much better opsec and don't post the logs of their criminal conspiracies on open internet forums.
- nixass 6y ago
  So it's manipulative to look for free floating data and make your own decisions? What the actual heck?
  - newacct583 6y ago
    Inducing other people to make trades based on fradulent, incorrect or manipulative information is a securities fraud, period. Most of what goes on on WSB dances right next to that boundary, so much so that people like you and the OP seem to have forgotten it exists. The comment above is crowing about "signal boosting", which is absolutely not the kind of thing you would say about purely neutral information. Obviously WSB posters haven't been prosecuted in the past. But the reason for that is that WSB activity hasn't so far been responsible for large-scale distortions in the market. Clearly that's no longer true.
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  - greatgoat420 6y ago
    No, but it may be manipulative to encourage people to buy a stock. There are classic schemes, usually referred to as a pump and dump where a person encourages people to invest in a worthless stock then dump their own holdings near the stock's peak. Algorithmically encouraging a pump and dump scheme is a bit iffy.
esyir 6y ago
Might also need a blacklist. $Rope is a thing over there.

ionwake 6y ago

This 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 ago
Not yet atm, but send me an email at letstalkalgorithms@gmail.com and we can talk.

hammock 6y ago

What's the window of time used here and how frequently is it updated?

vthallam 6y ago
The 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.

Stevvo 6y ago

Nice one. I thought about making this earlier today. Now I don't have to!

slg 6y ago

There should probably be some type of sentiment analysis on this as simply being talked about isn't always a good sign. However it would probably need to be customized specifically to WSB since they have their own language and terminology.

Ithildin 6y ago
Agreed. It would be nice if you could click on one and see the top X most recent mentions, or at least the links to those comments.
- dillondoyle 6y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/search/?q=gme&sort=top&restrict_sr=on&t=day https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/search/?q=gme&sort=t...

adammunich 6y ago

Are you matching only upper-case strings? If not, that could help filter out some common words.

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newacct583 6y ago

> Stocktwits and few other websites do some good work in signal boosting, up and coming stocks PLEASE people, look at what you are doing. If you want to "boost" a "signal" to get people to make trades the way you want them to, you are presumptively engaged in market manipulation. Stop this madness. I know it's popular to think that big evil hedge funds do these tricks too, and imagine yourself as a hero. But that's not really the way they work[1]. And it's not right when they do it, and it's not right here either. Yes, people go to jail for stuff like this. I'll take my downvotes now. But this really is just mass hysteria in our community right now. [1] And to the extent it is, they tend to have much better opsec and don't post the logs of their criminal conspiracies on open internet forums.

nixass 6y ago
So it's manipulative to look for free floating data and make your own decisions? What the actual heck?
- newacct583 6y ago
  Inducing other people to make trades based on fradulent, incorrect or manipulative information is a securities fraud, period. Most of what goes on on WSB dances right next to that boundary, so much so that people like you and the OP seem to have forgotten it exists. The comment above is crowing about "signal boosting", which is absolutely not the kind of thing you would say about purely neutral information. Obviously WSB posters haven't been prosecuted in the past. But the reason for that is that WSB activity hasn't so far been responsible for large-scale distortions in the market. Clearly that's no longer true.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
- greatgoat420 6y ago
  No, but it may be manipulative to encourage people to buy a stock. There are classic schemes, usually referred to as a pump and dump where a person encourages people to invest in a worthless stock then dump their own holdings near the stock's peak. Algorithmically encouraging a pump and dump scheme is a bit iffy.

esyir 6y ago

Might also need a blacklist. $Rope is a thing over there.