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Making the World’s Best Screener for Our Users Pt. 2

December 6, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 2 comments

If you haven’t seen part one – read it here: Making the World’s Best Screener for Our Users As we’ve improved our screener- we also couldn’t stand idly by not updating our custom metrics creator. Tiingo was the first major fintech company to allow any user to create their own stock screening metric. And as time passed – we realized we were going to make it so much better for you. Announcing: The Sexy, Newly Revamped Custom Metrics Creator: The New…

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Making the World’s Best Screener for Our Users Pt. 1

December 6, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 0 Comment

It is over a year ago Tiingo launched it’s first screener. We were attempting to move forward the power of screeners, and we had a grandiose ideas of how to do it. We were the first to: Allow users to create their own metrics Created a new UI that challenged existing assumptions of screeners We’re never happy with the status quo, so we decided to challenge ourselves further. We were going to make the custom metrics more intuitive, the screener…

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Presenting the Tiingo API

June 14, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 2 comments

It’s here, it’s finally here. The Official Tiingo API has launched after months and months of people requesting this, followed by months and months of dev time. The reason it took so long? We didn’t just do standard-API stuff, but we built infrastructure in exchange data centers to help significantly reduce to costs to everyday users to FinTech and Institutional players. For example, EOD data is included in the Tiingo price, whereas for FinTech: real-time data is $500/month instead of…

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How to set up Hosted Web Apps with Windows Live Tiles

June 1, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 0 Comment

For those of you who have been keeping up with this blog, the Javascript container process is something I’ve been following closely for the past decade. Earlier in the year, Peter Kruger from Microsoft reached out asking if I could test their latest implementation, which we presented at //Build. It was an honor, and since then I’ve been advocating Microsoft and OpenFin’s implementation as my favorites. In a nutshell: The Javascript container process let’s you take a JS website and make it…

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AWS vs Packet.net
Why we left AWS
Benchmarking AWS’s Network, Disk, and CPU Performance

May 19, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 1 comment

If this sounds like a glowing review of Packet.net – it is. I found myself re-reading this post over and over, trying to make it sound less shrilly – but I can’t. It’s just a ridiculously good product and value – EC2 containers just don’t make sense anymore. A friend once told me, “Rishi – sometimes if you don’t advocate a product aggressively – you can be doing society a disservice in your attempt to be neutral. If the value is…

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The Protagonists Fixing the Problem that Apps Created (Part 2)

March 7, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 0 Comment

This is part 2 of the blog post: Apps Have Recreated the Problem the Web Was Trying to Fix In this post we’re going to discuss the protagonists who are creating tools and frameworks to unify the “App” experience across desktop and mobile. If successful, this will mean we are getting closer to mobile and desktop cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility. Please read part 1 if you are curious as to what this problem has meant for firms and developers. Google All…

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Apps Have Recreated the Problem the Web Was Trying to Fix (Part 1)

March 7, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 0 Comment

It’s no question the word “App” has become ubiquitous and for good reason. For users it’s allowed us to install entire applications within a click. Just 10 years ago, we had to run into a store like Best Buy, look for an oversized software box, and load the game or software over 4 CDs. For developers, it’s meant we can take our product and unleash into a massive pipeline where people are already on their phone constantly. The problem is we’ve…

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Matisse and Memory – What Matisse Means for Traders

February 13, 2016 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 1 comment

I was going through old E-mails when I came across a correspondence I wrote to some friends awhile ago. Those of you reading this may be wondering, “what does Matisse have to do with trading?” Let me explain. Investors and traders are creatives. Experienced market players will acknowledge this, but to those who are just breaking in you may not realize it. After all, finance is fraught with imagery of old men in suits, but if you were to stop…

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Launching the Tiingo Open Data Initiative

October 5, 2015 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 2 comments

Since day one, Tiingo has been committed to providing you with top quality data that is more accurate than companies charging $30k+ a year. How in the world is a company with a “set your own price” model going to pull this off? Because we’re going to do something unheard of. Presenting the Tiingo Open Data Initiative Sound sexy? No? Good, because clean data should be boring. Except we’re still going to try and make it sexy (we like doing…

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Screening for Increasing Dividends

September 15, 2015 Rishi Singh - Founder Comments 0 Comment

A user asked us if we could allow screening for increasing dividends; but, we figured we’d do one better. What if you could screen for the increases and decreases of any metric? Tiingo now allows this in 3 easy steps. Step 1: Create a custom metric To start, visit the custom metrics page here: https://www.tiingo.com/screen/custom Simply enter the metric you want in the “formula” box. In this example we want to see if the dividend increases, so we type: “Dividend_Cash” But we want to see how many times…

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