I've long been an index-investing type of person, but last year I started making some side bets, especially in tech (some inspired by WSB). I was sharing them with friends and wanted to simplify that.This is how Investment Bets came about: you pick a ticker, a direction (long or short) and optionally a target date. The server fetches and records your entry price when you open the bet, and your...
So, the server that runs the website also fetches the data on demand, which it then caches for up to 1 minute in order to not get denied with 429 Too Many Requests. That was the optimal balance between freshness and stability in my tests.
I'm using a cheap server provider for now, so my server costs amount to around $5/month. I expect that to (hopefully) scale up, but for now it works without issues.
I've long been an index-investing type of person, but sometime last year I started making some side bets, especially in tech (some inspired by WSB). Since I was also sharing some of them with like-minded friends, I thought about simplifying this whole process.This is how Investment Bets came about: you pick a ticker, a direction and optionally a target date. From there, the site tracks your bet...
I'm somewhat confused about the auction for the next day versus the current line - can you elaborate on that?
Also, I tried looking at the stats but the page throws a 404 error - maybe something to look into.
Overall a cool concept, I like it.