[HN Gopher] Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
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Show HN: Reddit Wallstreetbets Top Leaderboard
Author : vthallam
Score : 186 points
Date : 2021-01-28 00:06 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| bigpumpkin wrote:
| Would love to see "trending" stocks that see the greatest
| increases in popularity over the last 24 hours/ week, etc.
| _trampeltier wrote:
| Google 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 ..).
| giantg2 wrote:
| I 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.
| eps wrote:
| Where do you source the next earnings dates? From a quick skim
| some appears to be off.
| vthallam wrote:
| I got some from NASDAQ and a few other websites. Mind sharing
| examples, so I can fix them.
| niksyyy wrote:
| This is very useful! Thanks!
| vthallam wrote:
| 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).
| slg wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| hammock wrote:
| What's the window of time used here and how frequently is it
| updated?
| vthallam wrote:
| 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.
| newacct583 wrote:
| > 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.
| Stevvo wrote:
| Nice one. I thought about making this earlier today. Now I
| don't have to!
| adammunich wrote:
| Are you matching only upper-case strings? If not, that could
| help filter out some common words.
| [deleted]
| ionwake wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Not yet atm, but send me an email at
| letstalkalgorithms@gmail.com and we can talk.
| el_isma wrote:
| Pretty 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.
| giarc wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| OPEN 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.
| nostrademons wrote:
| Also PUMP, NOW, OPEN, TD (probably as in TD Ameritrade), RIDE,
| etc. Shows some of the pitfalls of naive text mining.
| [deleted]
| soared wrote:
| This 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.
| monkeydust wrote:
| Would be fun to create an index out of this.
|
| Weight on popularity.
|
| Track on the top of the page.
| filoleg wrote:
| Not 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_ wrote:
| >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 wrote:
| Funny, but seriously if BlackRock found out there would be an
| iShares Becky ETF in a month with a 1% mangement fee.
| thestu wrote:
| Would be cool to see this in bar graph form, broken down by day.
| EForEndeavour wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| This could probably be at least somewhat mitigated by checking
| whether the surrounding words are also in all caps.
| airstrike wrote:
| What's next? SPACs with tickers HODL and LMAO?
| dnadler wrote:
| Not 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
| vthallam wrote:
| looks nice and clean. yeah pretty sure it's a popular idea atm
| haha.
| Skiboy89 wrote:
| Very useful! Thanks :)
|
| Would be even better if you could see how the stocks move on the
| leaderbord (/trending stocks). Just a suggestion.
| waiseristy wrote:
| These just seems like a list of failing companies. GameStop, AMC,
| BlackBerry?
| airstrike wrote:
| Define "failing"
| waiseristy wrote:
| https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514822/amc-theaters-
| ca...
|
| 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 wrote:
| That 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.
| brundolf wrote:
| Fantastic domain name
| vthallam wrote:
| This is data from the last 24 hours until it went Private.
| chovybizzass wrote:
| its back open now.
| vthallam wrote:
| Yes, started parsing the comments and updating the dashboard!
| tnel77 wrote:
| When 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 wrote:
| It's based of a rolling 24h window. This gets updated in real
| time from r/wsb comments;
| brd wrote:
| This 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 wrote:
| This is the way.
| dharmab wrote:
| You might want to right-justify the numeric columns to more
| easily compare.
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