afarquhar

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by afarquhar 10y ago
it says "In thousands, except share, per share and customer data" - so it may be 28 thousand accounts. May have misread this though https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000104746916.
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by afarquhar 12y ago
Yep that's a fair comment, we built it because we were sharing so much stuff that it became difficult to remember who had sent which link, and what exactly was in the article. Plus we're super-lazy and saving that 5-10 seconds 20
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Show HN: Article Bay, for collecting articles and sharing them with your team(articlebay.co.uk)
5 points by afarquhar 12y ago|2 comments
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by afarquhar 12y ago
hi yeah that was a real pain for me. There are 2 namespaces in use, http://www.xbrl.org/uk/gaap/core/2009-09-01/ and http://www.xbrl.org/uk/cd/business/2009-09-01 , either
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by afarquhar 12y ago
sorry about that - what were you searching for?
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by afarquhar 12y ago
This is the end result of some nasty XML-munging of the newly-available Companies House data sets ( http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/dataProducts.sh... ). I know you can get similar stuff from Duedil, but thi
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Show HN: Free UK company data search(loyaltybay-companies.herokuapp.com)
4 points by afarquhar 12y ago|5 comments
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by afarquhar 14y ago
Currently it's daily. One of the possible future extensions is into intra-day but it brings a whole load of extra technical problems. Honestly the problems look really fun, things like keeping the backtest running relatively fast, caching t
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by afarquhar 14y ago
we've all been salivating about the potential for an 'Optimise' button. It would be really cool, it has a few wrinkles though, e.g. there might not be a unique maximum solution, so how do you choose the best one? Once there are a few variab
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by afarquhar 14y ago
Our understanding of the Yahoo/google T&Cs was that we couldn't aim to profit from their data ( http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/tos ). We may be being overcautious but we didn't want to risk getting into trouble ;-)
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by afarquhar 14y ago
yep you're totally right, but hopefully it's still useful!
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by afarquhar 14y ago
yeah that caught us out - we found that even though the data is freely available from those sources, you're not allowed to include that data in a commercial app :-(
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Show HN: Quantblocks - Backtest your trading strategies(quantblocks.com)
99 points by afarquhar 14y ago|86 comments