StonksGPT
Finance and crypto
stock market search
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
2 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.56.
Performance: 0 for, 10 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks nice and has a good name
From 1 comment
Looks really nice. Also, excellent name.
starbugs on HN
Objections
Returns no answers for many queries or wrong results
From 6 comments
How is this #2 on the front page? It doesn't do anything! I typed in a question, no answer. I typed in a public company name, no answer.
jmartens on HNI entered a very reasonable query, "what stock should I buy (to get rich as hell)", and there were no useful results. Hopefully this will be fixed when it is officially released!
karaterobot on HNAll my requests fail beyond the proposed prompts, and the "random". I asked "show me the chart of SP500 over the last 3 months" and it didn't work. Could you give a rough idea of…
TheRoque on HNAsked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
scottiebarnes on HNQ: PE ratio of NVDA A: stock price chart of NVDA... needs some work folks.
anonu on HN0 for 5 questions. I gave up.
brentis on HN
Hallucinated answers to company questions
From 1 comment
Q: "Tell me about Stonks GPT?" A: "Stonks GPT is a trading name for Stocks & Breads, a UK-based provider of bread and breakfast products. The company was founded in 1894 and is…
simonbutt on HN
Hard to rely on for trading decisions
From 2 comments
> Different kind of AI though. Yeah exactly lol. You can't just slap GPT into a bot and expect it to outperform the purpose built stuff with a ton of domain knowledge built into…
__loam on HNHey look, more ways to confirm bias and lose money.
m3kw9 on HN
Server overloaded, returns 429 errors
From 2 comments
Hugged to death? Console shows: 429 (Too Many Requests)
spyder on HNHi, congrats on your project. I've noticed some things: - Since this doesn't seem to be made to deal with long complex prompts, I think enter should submit the query instead of…
yreg on HN
Requests
Support queries beyond the provided prompts
From 1 comment
It'd be great if it worked outside of the provided prompts
throwaway743 on HN
Add fundamentals such as PE ratio and earnings from filings
From 2 comments
Asked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
scottiebarnes on HNAll the stock and finance data one needs is in earnings statement PDFs stored on the regulators website. Why isn't there an AI product that can pull every PDF data table and…
rchaud on HN
Improve accuracy and reduce made-up answers
From 2 comments
Q: "Tell me about Stonks GPT?" A: "Stonks GPT is a trading name for Stocks & Breads, a UK-based provider of bread and breakfast products. The company was founded in 1894 and is…
simonbutt on HNYou won't catch everything but I've found if you specify that it's okay to respond that it doesn't know the answer and essentially accuracy on a smaller subset of answers >…
simonbutt on HN
Allow Enter to submit queries
From 2 comments
Hi, congrats on your project. I've noticed some things: - Since this doesn't seem to be made to deal with long complex prompts, I think enter should submit the query instead of…
yreg on HNI would personally prefer to submit the query with ENTER and add new lines with SHIFT + ENTER, like in e.g. Slack. (Not on mobile though, of course.)
yreg on HN
Questions
How the natural language query is turned into a database query
From 3 comments
So how does this work? “Top 10 technology stocks by marketcap” for example. I can see how it can take technology stocks when looking at the whole sentence and use that for a…
sroussey on HNHaha, that’s not even SQL. But I am interested in how it turns the request into SQL (if that’s what it does).
sroussey on HNTypically you feed the schema in as context and literally just ask the model to turn it into SQL. So a prompt of the format "Given this schema {schema}, turn this query into SQL.…
lgas on HN
Whether politician trade data will be added and whether it is actionable
From 2 comments
> show me nancy pelosi's options positions right now Dang. I wanted to be a billionaire too.
exabrial on HNWhy? Their data is like three months behind. Is that still actionable?
djbusby on HN
Alternatives named
Biztoc ChatGPT plugin for finance news
From 1 comment
https://biztoc.com also has an approved ChatGPT plugin for finance news.
marban on HN
Computerised financial data services
From 1 comment
All the stock and finance data one needs is in earnings statement PDFs stored on the regulators website. Why isn't there an AI product that can pull every PDF data table and…
rchaud on HN