[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":549},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-3270387":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":119,"maker_in_thread":281,"shape":291,"grid":294,"attempts":511,"same_week":512,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":541,"reader_version":542,"card":543},"3270387","BullBear","tool for commodity traders, brokers and analysts.","title","Show HN: tool for commodity traders, brokers and analysts.","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bullbear.ca","bullbear.ca","dem",1322063503,2011,107,90,94,1097,9,"notable","finance_crypto","commodity market news sentiment","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"commodity news sentiment","commodity trading","market sentiment index","bullish bearish news","mixed",-0.301,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":32},7,23,3,56,{"design":36,"idea":39,"privacy":41,"execution":43,"performance":45,"pricing":46},{"positive":37,"critical":38},2,11,{"positive":33,"critical":40},8,{"positive":42,"critical":37},1,{"positive":44,"critical":44},0,{"positive":42,"critical":42},{"positive":44,"critical":42},[33,44,44,42,33,42,42,42,42,33,42,48,42,33,44,37,44,42,42,42,42,42,44,49,33,33,33,42,33,42,49,48,42,42,42,33,49,33,42,49],4,5,null,{"problem":52,"audience":62,"pricing":68,"motivation":74,"time_to_build":50,"stack":80,"openness":117,"stage":118,"team_size":117},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Summarising commodity market news into a bullish or bearish sentiment signal","maker",[56,59],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},"3270391","We launched this tool in July and have got good feedback from traders and brokers. But I’d like the opinion of this crowd too. So what do you think?",{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},"3270563","Yes, well aware of that and we are currently looking into it. Although, we are not pretending to predict the price movement. Rather, we are reporting on what the news is saying.…",{"value":63,"source":54,"evidence":64},"Commodity traders, brokers and analysts",[65,67],{"id":66},"post",{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},{"value":69,"source":54,"evidence":70},"Subscription planned for webapp and API",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"3271404","Regarding your first question, we want to offer a subscription based service both for the webapp and our API. The API access is not advertised yet, but we are planning to offer…",{"value":75,"source":54,"evidence":76},"Idea proposed by a commodity trader friend",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"3271321","Not ourselves, but we know people you do. This whole idea was proposed by a commodity trader friend of ours and we decided to give it a shot. This is what came of it. So far, our…",[81,87,91,95,99,103,107,113],{"value":82,"source":54,"evidence":83},"Python back-end",[84],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},"3271591","We use Superfeedr for feeding the news into the python back-end running on AWS. SQS queues are used to send and receive messages between our web portal and analyzers. The…",{"value":88,"source":54,"evidence":89},"AWS (SQS, S3, SNS)",[90],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},{"value":92,"source":54,"evidence":93},"CouchDB",[94],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},{"value":96,"source":54,"evidence":97},"Google App Engine",[98],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},{"value":100,"source":54,"evidence":101},"Knockout.js",[102],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},{"value":104,"source":54,"evidence":105},"jQuery and underscore.js",[106],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},{"value":108,"source":54,"evidence":109},"Superfeedr news feeds",[110],{"id":111,"by":11,"text":112},"3271262","We use Superfeedr.",{"value":114,"source":54,"evidence":115},"Reuters OpenCalais for NLP",[116],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},"unknown","launched",{"praise":120,"objections":148,"requests":201,"questions":241,"alternatives":269},[121,137],{"value":122,"source":123,"evidence":124},"Simple, clean UI and design","commenter",[125,129,133],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"3270416","freshfey","I love the simple design and straight-forward copy, well done!",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"3270995","hmigneron","Not a huge deal, but I think you should add the \"Try it now\" button on your learn more page (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bullbear.ca\u002Fmore). Clicking on the back button or on the logo to go back…",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"3270997","peterdelrosario","Nice tool... great UI. I don't like being automatically signed up for your newsletter, though.",{"value":138,"source":123,"evidence":139},"Useful idea and tool for commodity news",[140,144],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"3270597","comm_it","I actually work in commodities and I think this is a cracking tool from a quick glance over. I love the extracts you get when you click on a particular news story. The design…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"3270514","ravikalaga","Simple UI, like it. So only for traders? No chance of regular investors to use the information in some way? Just curious about this only being for such a niche crowd.",[149,156,167,178,193],{"value":150,"source":123,"evidence":151},"Not clear it helps traders who already use Bloomberg",[152],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"3271113","elemeno","I'd have some doubts about it's utility to a professional trader - they've already got a Bloomberg in front of them, which is telling them everything you can, except faster and…",{"value":157,"source":123,"evidence":158},"Sentiment lags news, so limited trading value",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"3271082","jnorthrop","I had a very similar idea about 15 years ago. I was working for a market research firm that measured the effectiveness of marketing and public relations campaigns. To quantify…",{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"3270637","themichael","Why would this be valuable to traders? Silver is down more than 1 $ today and is still shown as bullish. Am I missing something?The biggest factor this week was option expiry and…",{"value":168,"source":123,"evidence":169},"Font rendering looks faded on Windows",[170,174],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"3270515","typicalrunt","The rendering of the font in my machine (Windows 7, Chrome 15) is off. You are using your own web font \"Cantarell\", but it looks faded and unsharpened. Considering that many…",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"3270737","cfontes","The idea is nice, layout looks good, will try the features later. The Font SUCKS on windows xp +chrome( I am at my job ) why people use this kind of ugly fonts so often ? It…",{"value":179,"source":123,"evidence":180},"Forced login with third-party accounts",[181,185,189],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"3270676","nwilkens","A personal preference, but I like to have individual login detail per site. This looks like I can use many other providers to login, but I would prefer to utilize a standard…",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"3270805","ljfoy","Please just use a standard login.",{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"3271490","eps","What's the rationale of not providing a conventional login option? I for one do not have an account with any of listed services - Google, Yahoo, Twitter, etc - and don't have any…",{"value":194,"source":123,"evidence":195},"Automatic newsletter signup",[196,200],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"3270781","true_religion","Don't sign me up for a newsletter just because I logged in through Google.",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},[202,213,228,235],{"value":203,"source":123,"evidence":204},"Backtests",[205,209],{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"3270466","swah","Folks are going to ask for backtests...",{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"3270674","mneedham","I just stopped in here to ask for backtests.",{"value":214,"source":123,"evidence":215},"Use without login or more screenshots",[216,220,224],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"3273807","gradschool","Me too. Here's a radical idea: what would happen if you fixed it so that people could use the site without logging in at all?",{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"3271052","raarky","Would be great to learn more about it without having to log in. More screenshots too plz",{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"3270615","a3camero","You might want to add a way to see what the product is without signing in. If there is a way it wasn't immediately obvious to me. Looks neat though.",{"value":229,"source":123,"evidence":230},"Price and volume charts",[231],{"id":232,"by":233,"text":234},"3270590","aheilbut","This would be much more immediately interesting and useful if you included charts of price and volume right above the sentiment chart.",{"value":236,"source":54,"evidence":237},"Customisable news sources and weights",[238],{"id":239,"by":11,"text":240},"3270706","Currently the weighting is flat, but that is about to change. What we want to offer, and let me know if that is something of interest to you, is the ability for the user to…",[242,252,259],{"value":243,"source":123,"evidence":244},"Is it financial advice requiring regulation?",[245,249],{"id":246,"by":247,"text":248},"3270969","singular","I am not a lawyer, but I'd be careful to ensure that the advice this application gives does not construe financial advice that would require being registered with a regulator as…",{"id":250,"by":211,"text":251},"3270692","Great tool - nicely done. I have two questions: 1) What is your business model? Hoping for acquisition or hoping to get traders to pay you for data? 2) How lawyered up are you?…",{"value":253,"source":123,"evidence":254},"Is reusing news articles copyright-safe?",[255],{"id":256,"by":257,"text":258},"3270696","brador","Aside: What's the copyright situation surrounding use of articles like this? Is it allowed under fair-use?",{"value":260,"source":123,"evidence":261},"Do the makers trade on it themselves?",[262,266],{"id":263,"by":264,"text":265},"3271122","steve8918","#1 question to the creators: Do you trade off this information, and if so, what techniques do you use? I personally can't see how I would be able to trade off this information…",{"id":267,"by":264,"text":268},"3271181","Thanks. But do you trade off this data that you generate? ie. do you eat your own dog food?",[270],{"value":271,"source":123,"evidence":272},"Bloomberg and Reuters news feeds",[273,277,278],{"id":274,"by":275,"text":276},"3270640","adamtmca","Don't Bloomberg and Reuters offer something similar built into their news feeds? Not that this would negate what you are doing, just wondering.",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},{"id":279,"by":222,"text":280},"3271133","You also have competition from the big guns with access to stuff like machine readable news feeds:…",{"comments":282,"answered":31,"key":283},13,[284,287,290],{"id":285,"text":286},"3270764","Actually, we are doing clustering, but as you found out it's not perfect. Like you said, we don't want the same news repeated over and over again to be factored in the bullbear…",{"id":288,"text":289},"3271161","I agree, predicting purely on lagging information is no good. 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