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Re:Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market by bbcbasic on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:36PM (#11919988)
I agree. How can joe average compete with the resources of hedge funds which are doing the same thing at a much lower latency using more sophisticated mathematical methods, at a higher volume (so lower relative fees).

I am sure the idea is well intentioned but really it is just suckering people out of money in a similar way to forex robots etc.

Re:Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market by vehementi on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:48PM (#11920201)
It's not about outperforming those hedge funds, I think that is out of scope. They're not competing.

It's that average people (or anyone) can't time the market etc. so nevermind any advantages a quant firm might have, the rules that average person sets up with their IFTTT will be horrifically unwise.

Re:Show HN: Trigger – IFTTT for the stock market by bbcbasic on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:17PM (#11920512)
That too!