Hey PH!
I’m a product builder that has been in the industry for about 10 years. Occasionally I like to play with the stock market. Firetail was built to scratch an itch that I didn't think anyone else had done well yet. Simple Stock Alerts displayed beautifully.
My brother and I have been playing with building a few apps as form of rapid education for him. While I've been programming for over a decade he's fairly new to it, so besides a few weekend game projects we decided to build Firetail as a bigger code challenge for him. I'd say he's doing pretty well!
For the design I wanted to do some unique things with the graphs. While most stock apps have an expected graph layout, I wanted to experiment with some unique graph experiences. There are three purposeful graph experiences in the app.
We built in a variety of alert methods to meet needs: email, SMS, flash, and push notifications.
Stock Exchanges currently supported: NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, OTCMKTS 🔥
What's next?
👾 CRYPTO Alerts!
We also have a Mac app in the works so you can get a Mac Push Notification 😉
@nivo0o0 a classic use case would be a value investor wanting to wait for a bargain at a certain percentage discount to a stock's current valuation. A limit order to buy (or sell) might provide a similar opportunity to trade automatically at a certain price value but in our case a trade would not be initiated, instead you might look at the market as a whole before you bought or sold the stock you are watching. Firetail might be one tool in your belt to help you buy at the right time instead of following the whims of an up and down market. Scenario 1: you read your favorite value investor magazine and find 10 stocks that you think are at a great valuation and are willing to buy them today because you believe they are undervalued. Because you're careful you set an alert for each of them at 10% off with the reasoning that if they're at a great value today they would be at a better valuation if they were 10% off. Scenario 2: you want in on the latest growth stock that everyone is going crazy over but it just went up 20% today, so instead of buying right now you look at this month's chart and choose to mark a near term low and buy when it dips. Scenario 3: You're a responsible long term investor and you've owned a stock that is starting to get overvalued so you set an alert for a recent high to remind you to make your move and sell at the right time.
@halvo@akeslowitz yep, working on crypto 😁 No plans yet for alerts at market close regardless of price. But we'll add it to the feature request list though, thanks for the input
@eartothenoise I saw your crash come through. We are patching the bug 🐜💥🔨 in the mean time feel free to try deleting and re-downloading, that should clear cache.
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