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by smcn 1492 days ago
Well the 4% is across all stocks. Multiple can be found per day. Sometimes none will be found.

All data is 100% available on feetr.io after market close and, when it launches, Monday will be given for free on Reddit, Twitter, and to anyone who has a free tier account at feetr. Monthly subscription will be $8.99.
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giantg2 1492 days ago
This sounds too good to be true.
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jqpabc123 1492 days ago
Yes, hindsight is 20/20.

It's easy to pick the high/sell price for the day after the day is over. Predicting this on the fly is a whole lot trickier. It's very unlikely you will catch the day's high. Unless you're psychic, you'll probably sell either too early or too late with diminished returns..

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smcn 1492 days ago
Absolutely correct. Feetr doesn't invest on people's behalf at this point, it's purely stock discovery. The idea of showing the difference between the open price and the highest is that this is how much profit could've been made that day.

The concept that I try to push is to focus on compound interest. To start with a small amount and just keep rolling it over into (near) daily profits. Don't try to time the top, sell when you're comfortable.

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giantg2 1492 days ago
The big guys are already using market sentiment analysis, so I think these are their scraps at best. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a secondary or deeper pattern in the data. For example, the highest gainers could be considered too risky for the big players.
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smcn 1492 days ago
Thank you very much, I appreciate that!

I would offer it for free but I believe that it's immoral (and potentially illegal) for me to be able to invest in the stocks when it launches, and so I've priced it at a point that I think people can justify. I tried to match Netflix on price, but they increased it so now I can say I'm cheaper than them.

If investing on Monday is making people more than $9 then it's worth it to subscribe, and if it isn't then I need to rethink the algorithm.

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gitgud 1492 days ago
> I believe that it's immoral (and potentially illegal) for me to be able to invest in the stocks when it launches

Great marketing here, the tool is so good that it would be "immoral/illegal" for the creator to use it.

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smcn 1492 days ago
Please don't misunderstand, I absolutely have been using it: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ive-made-over-700-return-w...

But when it launches, I have a competitive advantage over everyone using the service and that doesn't sit right with me.

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