Ask HN: Successful project to predict stock market

6 points by paulborza 6 years ago | 3 comments

Has anyone been able to successfully create a project that s/he runs on the side to predict stock prices? If so, what tech and what data did you use? And if not, could you share some of the learnings?

marketgod 6 years ago |

I do it to trade options successfully. I use technical analysis and it's definitely possible. It's not a side project, it's my income.

I only use PHP although the cool thing now is Python and has built in libraries. I don't need near instant execution and I started a long long time ago so rewriting everything is not something I want to undertake.

I use minute based data with all sorts of different indicators based on the stock, it's market, and competitors.

It's not something I think you can do as a side project as you have to refine it each day, I think if you aren't spending 8 hours a day looking at charts it will be hard to adapt/evolve.

Current stance is the market is bullish. I was bullish in December also.

kiranp01 6 years ago |

Long back I tried something similar, but not successful. Here it is in my Github: <https://github.com/gkiranp/trading-stat> The idea behind this project was to fetch information from twitter like social media sources and provide "popularity" info (not exactly stock price prediction) about stock of interest.

tucaz 6 years ago |

Sure they have. They used monkeys and a dart board.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-hedge-fund-geniuses-go...