rishifromtiingo

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by rishifromtiingo 10y ago
Founder of Tiingo.com - it made top 10 of HackerNews before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762913 ) Thanks for the mention! The goal is to help liberate financial data and make it accessible to everyone via tools an
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by rishifromtiingo 10y ago
Yes, I 100% agree. I struggle with this decision constantly on my platform ( https://www.tiingo.com ). People have called it a "Bloomberg Killer" but I strongly disagree. My goal is not to replace bloomberg. But one thin
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by rishifromtiingo 10y ago
For those of you asking about Packet reliability - been a huge fan of them and supported them where I can. My blog post and company have been on the front page of HN before. Here are my benchmarks: http://blog.tiingo.com/swi
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by rishifromtiingo 10y ago
Heh - yep. They have the type 0 which is $0.05/hr. It was a gateway drug for me <_<. Type 0 is also where I contain my scrapy farm. I find it works pretty effectively. I'll shoot them a note linking to your comment Also: Tha
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
Yep, which makes this all the more fun :)
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
Yep, I will be doing an API rollout soon. Pilot program to launch in the coming weeks. In terms of fundamental data or certain data, I will not because I want Vince's business (Sharadar) to flourish as well. Maybe down the line Vince a
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
It's crazy isn't it? The worst mistake BBG made for me was the futures contract there, where the WTI 2nd and 3rd contract swapped places when open interest/volume hadn't shifted! it switched back 30 minutes later??? That
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
A good friend of mine, Vincent from Sharadar sources the data. It is not free for me- I'm a huge data integrity nut, a spillover from when I used to trade quantitatively. I run my own data cleaning algos and I've found Sharadar&#x
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
Hi there Abundance, To address this concern outright: in the next couple weeks I was (and still am) planning to make a minimum payment of a $1/month. Without divulging too much into why, the company can be wildly profitable at such a p
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by rishifromtiingo 11y ago
Hi, I'm the founder of Tiingo and just saw a huge influx of users! Thank you HN! I 100% agree with you. The podcasts are there for educational purposes and I try my best to emphasize the limits of quantitative modeling and backtesting.