Show HN: Hacker News-ish stock news, from 40+ sources (opens in new tab)

Was just going to say basically the same thing, though you are wrong about Business Wire (the source of some original press releases with high value).

This site would be better with way fewer sources, paradoxically. Probably 5-7 are all you need.

I pay a small fortune for Bloomberg each year and get notifications of all news on a list of stocks ~200 long. Most of the notifications are spammy lawyer press releases. Bloomberg has made no effort to curate this intelligently. Yes I know I can manually ignore certain keywords, but that's a pain and constantly evolves, it seems.

Curation is indeed paramount in the financial news industry, where much news is automatically regurgitated to generate page views/ad revenue.

A few years ago 27 people were charged with fraud for being paid to pump stocks with hundred of articles these sorts of platforms under the guise of unbiased news. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-79

>The SEC today released an investor alert warning that articles on an investment research website that appear to be an unbiased source of information or provide commentary on multiple stocks may be part of an undisclosed paid stock promotion. Investors should never make an investment based solely on information published on an investment research website. When making an investment decision, thoroughly research the company using multiple sources.

There is so much noise out there. Hence, I rolled my own site (finclout) where relevant news is aggregated across several vectors leveraging social media arbitrage. So far its really profitable and brings peace to my mind to not miss a news item about a stock that I like. Further, Motley Fool is blacklisted. That's is a crap FOMO side.

A full public record of posts / pumps correlated by IP, country, device fingerprint, and equities they're pushing... with a free API... now we'd be talking about some interesting reverse engineering.

Just saying this bluntly is valuable to a lot of people

It looks like it relies on whatever curation https://stocknewsapi.com/ provides. So "moderation"/curation is being done, but not by steez.

where do you expect to find stock analyses that were written and published with no afterthought? All these authors have some sort of hidden agenda, don't they? Sometimes you find a useful hint at the start of some hype though.

Very true. I would gladly pay for a feed of financial news, but instead of "clicks" it optimizes on market movement. News articles from sources that, in the past, have predicted market activity.

I.e. "this blog mentioned NYSE:TEVA, and the next day the stock moved materially, therefore site_ranking++". (You'd probably have some TF/IDF saliency metric too, so that a site that mentions all stocks is penalized.)

That's why a site like biztoc.com makes sense — curation + aggregation.

Financial news is like a TV channel that plays nothing but commercials. In the sense that every story is trying to get you to do something very specific that enriches the storyteller.

I don't know why anybody would want that.

Sounds like the iOS stocks app. Just junk robo-articles it pulls in.

Thanks @kuzee! Much appreciated :)

I appreciate that info on LiveView, I plan on digging into it!

The public-facing pages of this site aren't currently using LiveView, but I see it on the horizon.

For speed considerations, I'm actually caching news stories in memory using the excellent Cachex (https://github.com/whitfin/cachex) library.

I don't think Google will let you run ads on a news aggregator site w/o unique content. [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1348737

I couldn’t agree more, it’s terrible and they should be ashamed of themselves for being so useless. I remember when Yahoo Finance was really good as a content aggregator we had dozens of contracts with news sources which you could filter etc. Plus the message boards that were some of the best on the internet. YFin has devolved into something unrecognizable (and horrible).

Hey @jedwhite! Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Yeah I'm pretty much relaying from https://stocknewsapi.com :)

I've been using them for about 2 years and they have an awesome team and service.

Hey nice idea- I am looking at building a dashboard style web app like yours. Have you used any frameworks here or rolled your own? - I am on mobile or id take a closer look myself.

Also I'd like to be able to read the reddit comment without having to leave the site if possible. Am liking it though, already been down a few rabbit holes. Good stuff.

not to hijack the thread but I am working on https://quantale.io/dashboard/start, you should check it out. You can filter the data by ticker and soon I am adding watch list to monitor those particular tickers. thanks

Thanks, much appreciated! I'm glad you find it somewhat useful :)

Honestly, it was super simple to put together; I pull data from https://stocknewsapi.com, which I've found to be very high quality and reliable (I'm using their sentiment classifications as well, so not exactly sure what model is behind that).

The project isn't currently open source, but I'm definitely considering it. I built it with Elixir + Phoenix, with a couple main objectives:

- Familiarize myself with Tailwind - Set up a really smooth developer experience - Learn about deploying Elixir + Phoneix apps - Build something of some use!

I'd love to see your project as well – happy to discuss more!

You might want to change the background color imo. The blueish text on blue background makes it hard on my eyes.

The "toc" in the name makes me think of TikTok. But the site looks pretty reddit-like. Any similarity to TikTok or where does the toc come from?

@paulpauper, it's pretty much a UI on top of the awesome Stock News API (https://stocknewsapi.com).

I really just built it to get acquainted with Elixir + Phoenix, and wanted to share it with the community :)

I'd go the other way, please don't add commentary and a good way to monetize this kind of site would be to charge for access to a separate related forum/discourse instance. Optionally you could show comments if someone wants to see them on the page (or include a link to the dedicated forum thread for every post).

Having commentary on a site like this is a great way to turn into WSB/StockTwits and/or have people attempting to pump and dump.

I really appreciate both points of view here! Thanks for your feedback :)

I honestly just built this project as a tool to aggregate market news for myself and build something simple with Elixir + Phoenix.

I don't have any plans to add commentary – but I do intend to keep it running and building things that are helpful to myself and the community!

I was the original inventor of Popurls (which Guy Kawasaki cloned as Alltop). Popurls is dead after I sold it to Idealab some ten years a go but I've recently come up with https://upstract.com

Reuters links are all dead and seem to be very old