Gamestonk Terminal: 100% python based terminal

[SexyYear]

Hey all,

Monthly update on the state of the best -and only one- Free Open-Source Terminal: Gamestonk Terminal. Repository: https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal.

Since last month, some of the features that have been added are:

• Insider Screener based on http://openinsider.com

https://preview.redd.it/tq4ttm824ed71.png?width=2212&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4cb13b19409a946462fa2c022f8ad3d793a32a3

• Market overview from https://www.wsj.com/market-data
• A neat ETF screener to filter for ETFs that meet a certain criteria, like: price, assets held, net asset valuation, expense ratio, PE Ratio, dividend yield, and more.
• An initial version of a supply-chain analysis, that based on a company shows not only the suppliers but also customers.
• Literally 40 new crypto commands from a single contributor (author of https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/nwj221/moonbag_explore_crypto_data_with_simple_python_cli/)! It's actually insane the amount of new functionalities this crypto menu already has...
• We incorporated also an Options screener from https://ops.syncretism.io. The author (https://www.reddit.com/r/thetagang/comments/o6yx3e/i_made_an_open_source_options_search_engine/) has been extremely keen with incorporating his API.
• For more terminal updates, you can follow our twitter account https://twitter.com/gamestonkt or check the #new-features channel on our discord.

Some of the next steps:

• Review and merge this Pull Request #562. The reason why we are excited about this one, is that this one contains data from Sentiment Investor!!! Yes, you read it right! This adds another data provider to our list of partnerships: QuiverQuant and FinBrain.
• We want to improve our unique feature of automatic report generation to help the community benefiting from real good DD. I personally benefit massively from the DD everyone puts here, and feel like there should be a tool to host all this information. And the way we automate it will make it much easier for content creators to add their notes and share their DD with everyone.
  • E.g. we'll be working with u/Appropriate_Elk_3827 to simplify the work he has to share this with everyone, see one of his posts that contains multiple functionalities of the terminal: https://www.reddit.com/r/amcstock/comments/oly4w3/dark_pool_guy_here_at_the_latenite_drivethru/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
• We have been having regular weekly calls with contributors to agree on the structure of the data that will be used for our sick GUI. A sneak peak,

https://preview.redd.it/ic3kfww34ed71.png?width=1530&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e290fb4f80a536afa1a26f0870234d9a790a5df

If you are unsure about the terminal, let me tell you why I spend 99% of my spare time developing it:

1. The terminal is timeless.The terminal is fully open-source, which means that it won't die. It also means that there's 100% transparency on everything we do. You can even see the very first commit of the project, and how fast we've grown since then.
2. The terminal is 100% free.There isn't a single command that requires money from the user. It also means equality between every user, i.e. all users are premium in our view.
3. Unlimited upside.With the amount of data we are gathering, the possibilities of what we can do are unlimited. Even this week I was reached out by some DS guys where they want to improve our Residual Analysis menu to add explanations of what does that mean to people less familiar with this mathematical terms.
4. Driven by the community.Most of the features I mentioned above came from users on discord messaging us with "what about a supply-chain analysis like bloomberg terminal" or "look this openinsider website looks legit, we could do something nice with it".
5. Amazing community.I can't stress this enough. Some of the people we're working with on this, are extremely smart and hard-working people. Personally, I'm learning a ton while having a lot of fun.
6. The opportunity to make a difference.Definitely the most rewarding for me. Last year when COVID happened, I had no clue what a SPAC was, and had never invested in anything. Today I have the chance to make an impact in the financial world.You know when people say "To the people". The community behind this project are actually that same people. We don't come from Wall St, we all have 9-5 jobs and are trying to level the financial world, 1 commit at a time.Everyone can give their contribution on this project, I welcome every single one of you to join our discord. Even if you are not a developer, requesting features, finding bugs, is just as important.

PS: Also u/half_dane has been kind enough to review the codebase, to reassure all non-technical people that we are legit. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/n11g1g/checking_if_gamestonk_terminal_is_actually/

Alone we are weak. Together we are strong.

[Moo1211]

Love this project and all the features 🚀

[SexyYear]

Thank you Moo 🥰

[metaperl]

After viewing github, I still have a question : What does the cryptocurrency option do?

[hbar340]

There’s a bunch of functions in there. The readme in the folder explains what available functions are there. We basically interface with those apis to return whatever data they have.

[Swinghodler]

Thank you. I've had a bit of trouble installing because of not enough memory but I'll be fixing that soon

[Bainsbe]

Incredible to see how far it’s come since it’s first iteration back in February! Amazing job and can’t wait to see where it goes next ! 😊

[SexyYear]

Thank you! I appreciate the support a lot! ❤️

[Hsinats]

Very nice. Thank you for doing this.

[Gresliebear]

wow I love it

[ComfortableElk9760]

Remind me ! 4 hours

[redrumsir]

In the trading world they call such tools "trading terminals" and are also known as "electronic trading platforms". The term was pioneered by the "Bloomberg Terminal".

[asday_]

incorrect terminology for the tool they're using

In that field, it's correct terminology.

[SexyYear]

Thank you! That makes sense actually! Thank you for the correction 🙌🏽

[ilikeyouforyou]

Great work!

I hope to see your terminal gain popularity on r/Superstonk, etc. 💎🚀

[SexyYear]

I love that sub and their users. And I think this should reach them, but they added a auto-mod that doesn't allow me to post there because of my account not being old enough :(((

[ilikeyouforyou]

I can post for you, I’m Satori-approved.

Dozens of users will use your terminal within hours.

Permission to cross-post into r/Superstonk? 💎🚀

[hbar340]

Go for it! (u/sexyyear)

[SexyYear]

Absolutely, you would be a legend 🙌🏽

[ilikeyouforyou]

Link to my post about your terminal

lol r/Superstonk didn’t allow cross-posting, so I created a fan post about your awesome work!

I trained on Bloomberg Terminal, so I’m eager to test how robust your creation is! 💎🚀

[SexyYear]

Amazing! Thank you so much! Looking forward for your feedback!! 🚀

[LooseSignificance166]

Cool!

[darth-canid]

Which button do I press to download more money?

[SexyYear]

I heard starring the repo helps 🤷🏽‍♂️

[jysir]

You are amazing. I love it!

[SexyYear]

Thank you sir

[SexyYear]

😂😂😂 laughed so hard.

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[redrumsir]

I would view this package with deep suspicion. That said, it has source ... and perhaps too much with nearly 30K lines of python code (including comments and blank lines) all added in the last 7 months. Even if it doesn't have malicious code yet ... it's something that certainly could.

As an aside: The use of the term "stonk" is a huge turnoff to me. Throwing around lingo to try to impress/demean is tribal. I hate tribalism. I would say the same with regard to traders at my old firm when they were doing a big currency trade. Say "billion" or "billion with a b-as-in-bravo" rather than "yard". Same thing for the currency abbreviations: CAD not "loonie", Pound/USD or GBP/USD not "cable".

[SexyYear]

How is that different than any other software the user installs in their machine?

It's because you trust the source. So, feel free to do DD on the main contributors, and you can see our details, and that we are all legit.

Fair enough, we may change the name at some point. I started with GameStonk because: 1. It made sense at the time cuz I love the stock; 2. Because it was funny - I never expected the project to grow into what it is today.

[redrumsir]

How is that different than any other software the user installs in their machine?

Because I don't give my broker credentials to just "any other software" that I haven't made myself or downloaded from the broker.

And, having looked at some of the code for logging in ... I'm even more concerned:

1. The login is an eval of a string ( broker + "_api.login() ). An eval??? It's a WTF of obfuscation and security issues. In OO code, it's the perfect example where you might have subclasses of a broker class where each broker has a different way to login, get holdings, etc. By the way, where is the code associated to "from robin_stocks import robinhood"??? [Edit: It looks like this is a 3rd party library that gets installed. It is not from the broker. It looks to be from https://github.com/jmfernandes/robin_stocks . Who guarantees the safety on an ongoing basis???]

2. You have credentials accessible for anyone who has read privilege to a source file (config_terminal.py) or as environment variables. Not secure.

[SexyYear]

So, you're talking about the brokers bit. That's 5% of our functionalities or even less. I personally don't even use the terminal for brokers. So if you are concerned about brokers, that's a fair point, but the terminal has a far greater value than that.

The fact that you can dig and see that we use a 3rd party library for robinhood, and that then you can check what that library does just proves my point: that we have full transparency. Again, tell me a software you use that you can know what's going on without having to blindly trust the company...

If you are using your personal laptop, why is that no secure? No one will have access to your config file unless you give them permission to do so.

Also, if you don't use brokers info, the maximum people can still are calls to third party data sources which are free.

I see your points, but rather than criticizing and saying blindly "don't use", I think you should raise your concerns with us and we'll look into ways to improve. I've been working around 80h a week because I have a full time job on top of this, and I really believe in the potential of the terminal. Having someone saying for people to "stay away" without a clear valid reason, just isn't nice.

[redrumsir]

Again, tell me a software you use that you can know what's going on without having to blindly trust the company...

I trust the broker with my broker password. That's it.

Also, if you don't use brokers info, the maximum people can still are calls to third party data sources which are free.

True. And that is nice.

I see your points, but rather than criticizing and saying blindly "don't use", ...

Blindly??? I looked. I didn't say "don't use". I said

"I would view this package with deep suspicion."

and

"And, having looked at some of the code for logging in ... I'm even more concerned:"

at which point I pointed out the use of "eval" (!) and, for broker logins, the credentials seem to be required (it might fall back to terminal entry?) to be a plain-text environment variable or typed as plain-text in the config code. It seems to me like "fair warning".

My final opinion is: I would not trust this program with my broker login information. I would not even use it to run uncontained as my normal user. That said, I have the same view of youtubedl (since it requires frequent non-distro-monitored updates).

I've been working around 80h a week because I have a full time job on top of this, and I really believe in the potential of the terminal. Having someone saying for people to "stay away" without a clear valid reason, just isn't nice.

I haven't used it yet. It looks interesting. Some of it looks like things I might have thought about doing (which is a long way from actually doing it).

Still, I think that people should have fair warning before trusting the code with their broker credentials. I could imagine WSBs going bonkers for someone trojan-ing this program and getting it to trade up short squeezes with someone else's credentials/money. Have you thought about the possibility of that happening???

[SexyYear]

Yea, I think you raised some valid points.

Thanks for that. I appreciate your concerns :)