You are clearly missing the point of an open source investment research platform.
OpenBB doesn't own any data. But by providing an open source infrastructure, any data can be hooked up into a single platform.
So your argument about BBG isn't valid, because with what we are building there's no reason why OpenBB couldn't integrate with BBG data feeds (if they were open to it).
Regardless, I agree that the Bbg comparison is more for marketing. Our approach is substantially different for a different market.
We immediately deleted that audience (which was our plan all along anyway), but then it was too late, we were trending on HackerNews and Mailchimp pinged us after. After that it was mostly damage control, as there's nothing we could have done to make things better.
The OpenBB Terminal is fully python based so that we can have the community working on the platform without needing to rely on other languages or frameworks. Having that said, we are currently working on a better frontend for less tech-savvy users.
From your demo, it seems that it's not all integrated into your platform, so you are just opening a new tab to the corresponding data source. On our platform you get access to a very substantial amount of data, and we make it all integrated so that you can benefit from learning our infrastructure.
You may argue that you get access to the data faster than OpenBB. But you are comparing opening a new window and url to processing data from a source and displaying into the same platform where the rest of the interface lies. A bit unfair.
In addition, we double down on automation. So, the OpenBB Terminal actually allows you to automate your full investment research routine - which I think is something you can't do in any other platform, easily.
> This was not intentional The goal was to let all you know about the rebrand of the project, ONLY.
That is not the defense you think it is, given that is also a violation of anti-spam and privacy laws in many jurisdictions, and of GitHub's ToS. One unsolicited e-mail is still unsolicited e-mail. What you intended to do was also wrong.
And believe me, if we had known how people would have reacted - even with the one single e-mail about us changing completely the name of org and repo - we would have not done it.
It's midnight here and am still apologising to everyone for this. It's frustrating, but it's the only thing we can do now.
I think people are probably curious how you got a list of emails of people who have starred your repo(s) on GitHub? Personally I don't think "please add my email to a database" as being included in starring a repo. Maybe there's something in the TOS or a community understanding I'm not aware of.
I'm not trying to pile on or push negativity to you and the project; if this is what you intended to do (and I don't have too much reason to doubt) then it's a different flavor of spam than recruiters/blogspam contacting us or signing us up for stuff without our consent.
> curious how you got a list of emails of people who have starred your repo
No mystery there; “stargazing” is one the public [1] social networking features that GitHub provides, and the email address that you write to your Git commits [2] becomes public when you share those commits on the internet.
"Letting you all know about the rebrand of the project" is still unwanted marketing that no project should engage in. Whether it's going to be continuous or not doesn't change that.
The irony is you're using a public platform to apologise for this, whereby people chose to come - it's not been foisted upon them. I'd imagine it gained you quite some interest in the project at first. You could have used the same means with some extra content to make the click worth it. This just looks sketchy and you may have alienated a number of potential users. Yes it's only an email but the demographic here is a little different to the norm.
Does any of you know what Docker, Jupyter Lab integration, features website and new features have in common? Well this is what has been happening in Gamestonk Terminal World since last month, and MORE!
Docker:
- This has been a highly requested feature from our more experienced dev users, as it allows you to run our code in a container, pull the image and then get going with a smooth installation process. You will also be able to run Jupyer Lab from our Docker container.
Jupyter Lab Integration:
- Jupyter is on course to take over the world
- Big investment banks like JP Morgan use Jupyter too
- Professionals in the industry such as Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Machine Learning engineers are familiar with the combo dockers+notebooks. Therefore, it makes our terminal an attractive Open-Source project to devote time to.
- Academia students and universities will be able to use terminal data through a notebook for their projects and coursework. We’re on track to be able to achieve something on this soon!
Hugo Website:
- This will not only simplify a contributor’s documentation process, but it will also let non-Gamestonkers now see the vast number of features we offer and yes, when you read “offer” this is actually an offer since the tool is completely free to use.
Main New features:
- New Dark Pool Shorts menu
- Refactored and improved Crypto menu!!!
- Dark Pool and Crypto report generation
- Excel Discounted Cash Flow created by a MBA student
- Big code refactoring to allow for contributors to easily get started with our codebase
- Contributing document
Tier 2 features:
- Sentiment Investor data features implemented by the SI team themselves
- Feature/fraud indicators implemented by a MBA student
- Multiple plotting for economy data for more insight extraction
- Screener presets to not miss out on promising tickers
- Several new Technical Analysis indicators, e.g. Fibonacci, Fisher transform, Centre of gravity, zlma, Donchian channels…
- Unusual options activity
- Hot penny stocks in discovery menu
- A contributor implementation of a realtime earnings expected move, from The Geek of Wallstreet
- Several new YahooFinance commands to discover promising tickers
- Refactor Exploratory Data Analysis and Residual Analysis menus into a Quantitative Analysis one
As if this wasn’t enough, we’re also working towards a Discord bot so you can make best use of our terminal when discussing trading strategies with your friends. This was an initiative from a contributor, which just goes to show how much we rely on our community to drive our project.
If you appreciate what we’re doing and want a better free and Open-Source financial tool, you should definitely star the project on our github here, join our Discord channel, and follow our twitter account. Not necessarily in that order! :)
Have you been following our project and want to join our growing community? Here are a few tips on how to get started: - Join our Discord and tell us about your experience so far
- Let us know what else you would like to see in the terminal
- You can help to improve our crypto terminal, which is 99% taken care of from our contributors!
- Help us add any features! You don’t know python? This may be your cue to learn with our team!
Yes, I spent a big amount of time investing on having the documentation in the code structure in the READMEs. We're still in the process of passing this information to the website
This has happened again and again throughout history. Where a movement caused a system change. For instance, Carnation Revolution which led to Portugal being a democratic country.
And this is already happening on the stock market, where the system is being re-considered due to the nature of shorting. As Elon Musk put it "u can't sell houses u don't own u can't sell cars u don't own but u can sell stock u don't own!?"
If retail traders start buying a stock just due to it being low float and heavily shorted, the system will have to adapt... There's not much a Hedge Fund can do, when you talk about millions of retards buying shares because "they like the stock".
FWIW, Databento has just announced a partnership with OpenBB (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/databento_openbb-investment-r...) and they provide real-time data