I'm just here to make

    FUTU, AQST

    Posted by DigiNomad on 23rd of Apr 2024 at 08:55 pm

    I'm just here to make money. You guys can say nice things to each other and be "supportive" but I'm just working.  Sometimes I throw out suggestions for improvements, like the one today about adding a column to the STS tables for sorting. Use it or don't. It would help me but you guys seem to do fine without much fundamental overlay, so you do you.  If I find something that does what this does plus offers a fundamental overlay, I'll switch...but so far that hasn't happened.  I know that any suggestions are viewed as criticism here, but I'm still going to offer suggestions every once in a while. Maybe something will help one of these days. Maybe not.  If you guys want to be offended, that's on you.

    Also, if the community got really good, maybe someone would say something like "hey, I have a excel sheet that I programmed to pull data fields automatically from the Google finance API after a ticker is entered. You can set it to pull basic parameters for free like PE, current prices, etc. Let me know if you want a copy and I'll forward it to you."  ...you never know unless you throw out ideas. 

    Personally - I do a

    Posted by steve on 23rd of Apr 2024 at 09:06 pm

    Personally - I do a fundamental overlay (in some degree on anything I'm considering swinging) but Digi we only have so much time.   It takes a fair amount of time to perform even a brief fundamental review (not just some glance at historical figures which are often mistaken).  Do you have any idea how long it takes to organize a comprehensive nightly newsletter annotating charts and then recording?   What other site does that on a daily basis as well as provides comments all day in the trading community?  Answer: NONE and even those that perform 1/10 of that charge considerably more each month.  So please take that into consideration and be realistic with such expectations. 

    Yep. It takes a lot

    Posted by DigiNomad on 23rd of Apr 2024 at 09:13 pm

    Yep. It takes a lot of time (fundamental analysis and making nightly videos). But I was thinking there might be 1, 2 or maybe 3 basic data points available via a public API that could at least allow us to broadly categorize picks as potentially good for ________ (intraday trading only, overnight hold potential, enough fundamental support to swing, potential long term hold idea).  Nothing's perfect, but I can glance at an IBD chart or FinViz and tell a lot very quickly.  All I'm suggesting is that it would probably help all of us if the process was condensed....even if imperfectly.  I don't expect it to happen, but worth the mention anyway.

    *available via public API - in other words, no additional work once setup....in theory.  If it was me, I'd definitely have a disclaimer in the column heading, like "not responsible for data pulled from 3rd party provider via Yahoo finance API." Not like anyone relies on a single fundamental data point to make a trade, and most know that Yahoo and Google often disagree on the same data point, but better to have a disclaimer anyway. 

    I think you just answered

    Posted by steve on 23rd of Apr 2024 at 09:24 pm

    I think you just answered your own question - when an idea appears YOU can simply take a moment to peruse such sources and make such determination yourself - it's in the eye of the beholder as to certain fundamentals.   This is a technical website and we are already stretched to the hilt on time but we would welcome any additional insight you or anyone else may have relating to any such security.   Ironically, many of the big runners I have seen over the past year plus have little to weak fundamentals and/or extreme valuations historically but they get swept in the passive investing scheme as so eloquently outlined by David Einhorn. 

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