StonksGPT

Finance and crypto

stock market search

SHOW HN2023

116points
62comments
#548of 3,109 in 2023
Top 18%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

2 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.56.

Performance: 0 for, 10 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Looks nice and has a good name

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Returns no answers for many queries or wrong results

    From 6 comments
    • How is this #2 on the front page? It doesn't do anything! I typed in a question, no answer. I typed in a public company name, no answer.
      jmartens on HN
    • I entered a very reasonable query, "what stock should I buy (to get rich as hell)", and there were no useful results. Hopefully this will be fixed when it is officially released!
      karaterobot on HN
    • All my requests fail beyond the proposed prompts, and the "random". I asked "show me the chart of SP500 over the last 3 months" and it didn't work. Could you give a rough idea of…
      TheRoque on HN
    • Asked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
      scottiebarnes on HN
    • Q: PE ratio of NVDA A: stock price chart of NVDA... needs some work folks.
      anonu on HN
    • 0 for 5 questions. I gave up.
      brentis on HN
  • Hallucinated answers to company questions

    From 1 comment
    • Q: "Tell me about Stonks GPT?" A: "Stonks GPT is a trading name for Stocks & Breads, a UK-based provider of bread and breakfast products. The company was founded in 1894 and is…
      simonbutt on HN
  • Hard to rely on for trading decisions

    From 2 comments
    • > Different kind of AI though. Yeah exactly lol. You can't just slap GPT into a bot and expect it to outperform the purpose built stuff with a ton of domain knowledge built into…
      __loam on HN
    • Hey look, more ways to confirm bias and lose money.
      m3kw9 on HN
  • Server overloaded, returns 429 errors

    From 2 comments
    • Hugged to death? Console shows: 429 (Too Many Requests)
      spyder on HN
    • Hi, congrats on your project. I've noticed some things: - Since this doesn't seem to be made to deal with long complex prompts, I think enter should submit the query instead of…
      yreg on HN

Requests

  • Support queries beyond the provided prompts

    From 1 comment
  • Add fundamentals such as PE ratio and earnings from filings

    From 2 comments
    • Asked for a PE ratio graph but didn't work, gave me a price only graph
      scottiebarnes on HN
    • All the stock and finance data one needs is in earnings statement PDFs stored on the regulators website. Why isn't there an AI product that can pull every PDF data table and…
      rchaud on HN
  • Improve accuracy and reduce made-up answers

    From 2 comments
    • Q: "Tell me about Stonks GPT?" A: "Stonks GPT is a trading name for Stocks & Breads, a UK-based provider of bread and breakfast products. The company was founded in 1894 and is…
      simonbutt on HN
    • You won't catch everything but I've found if you specify that it's okay to respond that it doesn't know the answer and essentially accuracy on a smaller subset of answers >…
      simonbutt on HN
  • Allow Enter to submit queries

    From 2 comments
    • Hi, congrats on your project. I've noticed some things: - Since this doesn't seem to be made to deal with long complex prompts, I think enter should submit the query instead of…
      yreg on HN
    • I would personally prefer to submit the query with ENTER and add new lines with SHIFT + ENTER, like in e.g. Slack. (Not on mobile though, of course.)
      yreg on HN

Questions

  • How the natural language query is turned into a database query

    From 3 comments
    • So how does this work? “Top 10 technology stocks by marketcap” for example. I can see how it can take technology stocks when looking at the whole sentence and use that for a…
      sroussey on HN
    • Haha, that’s not even SQL. But I am interested in how it turns the request into SQL (if that’s what it does).
      sroussey on HN
    • Typically you feed the schema in as context and literally just ask the model to turn it into SQL. So a prompt of the format "Given this schema {schema}, turn this query into SQL.…
      lgas on HN
  • Whether politician trade data will be added and whether it is actionable

    From 2 comments
    • > show me nancy pelosi's options positions right now Dang. I wanted to be a billionaire too.
      exabrial on HN
    • Why? Their data is like three months behind. Is that still actionable?
      djbusby on HN

Alternatives named

  • Biztoc ChatGPT plugin for finance news

    From 1 comment
    • https://biztoc.com also has an approved ChatGPT plugin for finance news.
      marban on HN
  • Computerised financial data services

    From 1 comment
    • All the stock and finance data one needs is in earnings statement PDFs stored on the regulators website. Why isn't there an AI product that can pull every PDF data table and…
      rchaud on HN

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