hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: I built TradingSpy: local, privacy-first AI trading assistant(First Open Source)
Hi HN,
I spend a lot of my weekends digging through market charts, scraping news catalysts, checking insider trading patterns, and testing Backtrader strategies. A few months ago, I realized I was spending way more time wiring together five different data APIs, writing custom plumbing scripts, and managing Jupyter notebooks than actually researching alpha.
Worse, most commercial platforms out there charge a fortune, lock you into their ecosystem, or harvest your proprietary strategies and data. Since I couldn’t find a privacy-first, all-in-one local environment that did what I wanted, I decide