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Re:Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on by random42 on Saturday March 23, 2013 @01:25PM (#5428904)
Since stock prices are all about speculation and market psychology, it is an interesting approach. I'd be very interested to know about how you implement.

How do you define and track the "online" world though?

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Re:Show HN: Bateman, a stock trading system I'm working on by pnathan on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:24AM (#5437465)
> How do you define and track the "online" world though?

Wink wink, nudge nudge, that's the secret sauce. ;-)

But more seriously, the plan of attack right now is just to scrape newsfeeds from news sources via rss.

While of course this is susceptible to bias in the media, my hypothesis is that so are the stocks. A rising tide lifts all ships as has been said: so long as you buy lowish and sell highish you'll do all right[1]

Other routes might be:

- twitter

- stock trading forums

- industry news sites

[1] bear markets demand some kind of shorting strategy I believe.

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