Some more context on this project:<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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).<p>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).
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.
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.<p>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.
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:<p>PUMP<p>APPS<p>PEAK<p>RIDE<p>WOW<p>CALM<p>CRY<p>SITE<p>MOD<p>SON<p>K
Not to hijack or anything, but I had a similar idea[0]. I wonder how many other projects like these are out there?<p>[0] <a href="https://isthisastonk.com" rel="nofollow">https://isthisastonk.com</a>
Everyone here seems to be complaining about how some tickers are wrong due to naive matching. If you're smart, you will look at this list for tickers that you don't recognize and then go try and view DD on /r/wsb. If you find some new DD that is good you might find yourself a really good stock play. Thanks for sharing!
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.<p>Market cap would be a nice addition to the table so we can see size. Maybe some measure of volatility too.
I thought they already had a bot that posts stats on mentions in the daily thread?<p>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.