I think most of the people underestimate the Reddit crowd.
If you scroll through the reddit posts, 9 out of 10 are shit posts. But that other one is actually really good DD, by retail traders with 9-5 jobs that go a long way to understand what's going on under the hood. Not conspiracy theories, but actually backing up by data.
However, I agree with you guys that if we want to become more "legitimate" we need to consider a change in the name. Although our intention remains the same, to combine our efforts and leverage data to the average retail trader that can't afford a Bloomberg terminal, or even a paid subscription to another SW.
Anaconda is more because it makes it easier to install python. A lot of our users have never coded before, and we found that installing python through Anaconda seemed the best option.
True. What most users do is that they work with the terminal as it comes, and as soon as they start needing an API key they go and get it. E.g. I don't trade forex, for me it doesn't make sense to set an Oanda account to get access to this information.
It's hard to improve in this space because we want to keep the terminal free. And exploiting each of the free tiers of these APIs makes that possible at the moment.
Our GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal2 has a Proof of concept GUI, where it works with a one click start. Although API keys still need to be provided.
Currently the terminal requests API keys that only give access to free tier features. This is so that we can say that every user has access to the exact same features, regardless of whether they have a subscription to a specific API.
This is likely going to continue for a while. However, at some point, we may want to add premium features associated with these APIs. Because if the user is paying such subscription, it makes sense to provide that data on the terminal. Since this will only benefit a small subset of our users, we are deeming this as low priority
I agree with you. The reason why we still link it to Bloomberg is because of the vision we have, not the current state of the project. Kind of similar to a self-driving startup mentioning that they will become a Tesla - It's not true, but you get the idea and concept.
I made the repo open-source first at the end of February, given that we are only 3 devs (2 adding features and 1 dev ops) all with full-time jobs, there's only so much we can get our hands on.
I don't have access to Bloomberg Terminal. But I'm pretty confident that there are features that we've got that Bloomberg doesn't. E.g. we have a screener for stocks that can be specified by our user base and made available by everyone (https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...). This is what having an open-source project can bring, combining collective knowledge of the community.
Couldn't agree more with this. I've learned so much these past couple of months. But having a more sustainable project with at least 1 full-time dev, would be very welcomy
Yes, this is definitely something we have in mind. Mostly because the user base starts to be quite big with a lot of feature requests, and bug fixes to be done. And currently we are only like 2/3 devs working on our spare time, it would be great to be able to have someone working on this full time.
However, we have to handle this carefully, because we don't want to charge the average retail trader, that's the whole motto of the project :)
I just want to follow-up on the terminal progress as it has been some time now. We're still working pretty fast on the terminal, adding new features almost every 2/3 days. And the prediction is that this will continue for a while.
The more we grow, the bigger the community and interest around the terminal. This includes not only users, but companies approaching us to integrate their data, which is great. Hence, if you are interested in helping out in some shape/form, please reach out (https://discord.gg/Up2QGbMKHY). There's definitely a lot to do!
Sorry for last time not being able to reply to the comments, I was constantly being PM'd to fix/improve the repo (mainly because I didn't expect it to get so much traction in a day), that I barely slept the days after trying to improve the installation, and helping users one by one with the install process. It is now in a much better shape, though.
I just want to follow-up on the terminal progress as it has been some time now. We're still working pretty fast on the terminal, adding new features almost every 2/3 days. And the prediction is that this will continue for a while.
The more we grow, the bigger the community and interest around the terminal. This includes not only users, but companies approaching us to integrate their data, which is great. Hence, if you are interested in helping out in some shape/form, please reach out (https://discord.gg/Up2QGbMKHY). There's definitely a lot to do!
Sorry for last time not being able to reply to the comments, I was constantly being PM'd to fix/improve the repo (mainly because I didn't expect it to get so much traction in a day), that I barely slept the days after trying to improve the installation, and helping users one by one with the install process. It is now in a much better shape, though.
If you scroll through the reddit posts, 9 out of 10 are shit posts. But that other one is actually really good DD, by retail traders with 9-5 jobs that go a long way to understand what's going on under the hood. Not conspiracy theories, but actually backing up by data.
There's a reason why HF are closing down due to shorting GME (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-based-hedge-fund-tha...).
However, I agree with you guys that if we want to become more "legitimate" we need to consider a change in the name. Although our intention remains the same, to combine our efforts and leverage data to the average retail trader that can't afford a Bloomberg terminal, or even a paid subscription to another SW.