Scatterstocks
Finance and crypto
stock market visualisation
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea is useful and interesting for seeing news impact on stocks
From 3 comments
Great idea! This is going on tomorrow’s to do list. I’ll come back with comments soon. I’ve got a couple of friends who are gonna love this too. Thanks for showing this.
zigzaggy on HNThat's very nice. About ten years ago I developed the 'Scale of Market Quakes' for FX data and wrote a paper [1] about it (it's terribly written!), which was then released as a…
iSpiderman on HNI remember a Bloomberg developer talk where they showed the price change as the news hit various outlets. Small move when it hit the BB terminal, a little more when Reuters, big…
verdverm on HN
Objections
Browser compatibility problems, especially Firefox, with the page failing to render
From 4 comments
"View Example" doesn't work edit: oh chrome works? Is this chrome only? Huh
s9w on HNFirefox
s9w on HNI'm using Firefox. ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration `NEWS_ITEM_TEMPLATE' before initialization init-templates.js:15:32
neogodless on HNFirefox doesn't work for me either. Chrome is OK. I am using Windows 7.
malshe on HN
Graph fails to load due to Alpha Vantage API rate limits
From 2 comments
Ran out of Alphavantage API Calls for the stock prices for the day :( Updated the token to a new one to see if I could get around it. Hopefully, they don't hate me.
catchmeifyoucan on HNSorry if the graph didn't render for you. Unfortunately, this is what a no-caching strategy looks like. { "Note": "Thank you for using Alpha Vantage! Our standard API call…
catchmeifyoucan on HN
No broad market index benchmark such as the S&P 500 for comparison
From 1 comment
This looks great! If it's OK, I would like to make a small suggestion for improvement. It will really help if you can add a reference to a broad stock market indicator (e.g., S&P…
malshe on HN
Poor mobile experience with alert popups and refresh cycle
From 1 comment
Please have a better experience for mobile users; an alert popup and refresh cycle is pretty bad. Rendering the mobile unfriendly parts with a message (even if it breaks your…
djinnandtonic on HN
Requests
Add a broad market index reference such as the S&P 500
From 1 comment
This looks great! If it's OK, I would like to make a small suggestion for improvement. It will really help if you can add a reference to a broad stock market indicator (e.g., S&P…
malshe on HN
Better mobile experience
From 1 comment
Please have a better experience for mobile users; an alert popup and refresh cycle is pretty bad. Rendering the mobile unfriendly parts with a message (even if it breaks your…
djinnandtonic on HN
Track authors to see who has impact on markets
From 1 comment
I’ve wanted to so something similar, adding tracking of the authors to see who is able to have an impact, or who is always wrong.
DougN7 on HN
Combine with contextually controlled correlation datasets
From 1 comment
Would be interesting to combine it with approaches like these 'Predicting Future Correlations with Contextually Controlled Datasets'…
octopod on HN
Questions
Does it work outside Chrome?
Alternatives named
Bloomberg terminal news-impact graphs
From 1 comment
I remember a Bloomberg developer talk where they showed the price change as the news hit various outlets. Small move when it hit the BB terminal, a little more when Reuters, big…
verdverm on HN
Olsen Scale of Market Quakes (FX web service)
From 1 comment
That's very nice. About ten years ago I developed the 'Scale of Market Quakes' for FX data and wrote a paper [1] about it (it's terribly written!), which was then released as a…
iSpiderman on HN