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by ssanders82 14y ago
The art of reading stock charts is called technical analysis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis ). It's disputed whether it works or not, but it's fun to try!
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by ssanders82 14y ago
I have data for all US stocks since 2000. At this point I limit the web app to the past few years or so, and only for S&P 100 stocks. I'll eventually open up more data for the premium users.
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by ssanders82 14y ago
Charting library is Telerik ( http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/chart.aspx ) - expensive but powerful. Thanks for the kind words.
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by ssanders82 14y ago
The historical data was free from finance.yahoo.com. I'll check out your link, thanks!
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by ssanders82 14y ago
Whoops, fixed!
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by ssanders82 14y ago
Hmm I've gotten a few errors come through with a blank user agent, perhaps that's it? What browser are you on?
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by ssanders82 14y ago
This is a re-launch of a web app I made a few years ago. I'm operating on the freemium model: pay a small one-time fee for access to premium features such as trade position size and price/volume indicators. Feedback needed, thanks!
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Show HN: Guess whether a stock will rise or fall - and get instant feedback(fakemoneyrealstocks.com)
35 points by ssanders82 14y ago|37 comments
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by ssanders82 14y ago
OP, I really don't want to be that guy, and I don't know why I'm being that guy tonight, but regarding your sentence, "I then spent hours pouring over..." - come on man, it's poring.
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by ssanders82 17y ago
Thompson didn't commit suicide in some Kurt Cobain "woe is me" manner. He shot himself at age 67 after battling painful and chronic medical conditions, when he decided he had lived a full life and wanted to go.
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by ssanders82 17y ago
I am individual contractor C, and company B pays me hourly as a contractor. I do most (95%) of my work for various clients of company B, but they are mainly concerned with my results, not every detail of my work. If I have questions, I usua
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by ssanders82 17y ago
I have a real problem with them jumping from intelligence to university academic success. When I was in school and had to develop team projects, if everything else was equal I'd go for a girl partner every time. Not that I thought they were
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by ssanders82 17y ago
None
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Ask YC: Review my idea - Online book discussion
2 points by ssanders82 17y ago|3 comments
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by ssanders82 17y ago
Looks like you're getting great feedback here, congrats. Without giving away proprietary info, is it possible to give some technical details such as what backend technologies you use, and who you're using to send SMS & phone calls?
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by ssanders82 17y ago
Awesome man, what were your swim/bike/run splits?
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by ssanders82 17y ago
After months and months of late-night coding sessions, created http://www.howmucharestamps.com :)
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by ssanders82 17y ago
What language? What do you do best?
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by ssanders82 17y ago
How do you promote these?
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by ssanders82 17y ago
Signing up for classes at FSU was always a huge pain. The session started at 8am and good classes filled up quickly. If a class was full you had to continually type in the registration number and submit the form to see if anyone had dropped
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by ssanders82 17y ago
It's commonly called the yips in sports ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips ) or target panic in archery - very good article at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/sports/olympics/01archery.... - those are more nervousness/fear based though
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by ssanders82 17y ago
Hmm, so maybe the hypothesis here should be "guitar playing gets you laid, jazz piano doesn't". Damn. I just started to teach myself piano...
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by ssanders82 17y ago
But if you have a large enough bankroll to do so, you should buy as many tickets as you can get your hands on - assuming #1.) the expected value is positive and #2.) your total investment falls below your Kelly criterion. I believe a city i
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by ssanders82 17y ago
I'm curious, for the "deep one-on-one": is this more often with people you know well, or casual acquaintances who pique your interest on a particular subject?
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by ssanders82 18y ago
This is something that Joel Spolsky has hammered on repeatedly, regarding employee motivation - http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-si...
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by ssanders82 18y ago
Word of warning: I used their $100/mo server cloud as my host for a while, but repeated downtime issues forced me to leave.
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by ssanders82 18y ago
Who thinks Paul Graham's essays have jumped the shark? (I'm aware this will not be a popular opinion on this site.) Raise your hand and I will elaborate.
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by ssanders82 18y ago
I was using covers.com, it has historical results, spreads, and Over/Under lines for several years back.
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Ask HN: Fuzzy Logic SQL select framework
11 points by ssanders82 18y ago|12 comments
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by ssanders82 18y ago
Why oh why did I read that last sentence as "No because I'm out of your gay parade". Why.

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