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Show HN: Curl Stock Research

StockChat, a free and unauthenticated HTTP endpoint for stock research, launched on Hacker News, allowing users to query quotes, charts, analyst scorecards, congress trades, and world markets via plain curl commands without an API key or signup. The service routes questions to deterministic reads and returns the short command used, while the companion app runs the same tools with AI on the user's machine.

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Every read StockChat computes — quotes, charts, analyst scorecards, congress trades, world markets — over plain HTTP. Pipe it, script it, alias it. No signup, no API key, nothing to install.

 a live read…

Same endpoint, no key, no AI bill: your question is routed onto one of the deterministic reads below, and the answer tells you the short command it used — so you only have to ask once.

$ curl https://stockchat.sh -d "how is aapl doing"

$ curl https://stockchat.sh/why-is-amd-down

$ curl "https://stockchat.sh/who%20owns%20nvidia"

$ curl -G --data-urlencode "q=is tesla overbought" https://stockchat.sh

Raw spaces in a URL are rejected by curl — use -d

, dashes, %20

or -G

.

how is aapl doing

/AAPL/overviewwho owns nvidia

/NVDA/smartis tesla overbought

/TSLA/tawhy is amd down

/AMD/newsis nvidia cheap

/NVDA/valuationwhich analysts were right on apple

/AAPL/scorecarddividend for coca cola

/KO/divhow is the market

/regimewhat's moving today

/moverscompare nvda and amd

/compare/NVDA/AMDGenuinely open-ended questions — "should I buy it?", your own portfolio, follow-ups — are what the app is for: it runs these same tools with AI, on your machine.

The same deterministic engine either way — pick your trust model.

$ curl stockchat.sh/NVDA

$ curl stockchat.sh/AAPL/scorecard

$ curl stockchat.sh/congress

$ curl stockchat.sh/xray/AAPL:15000/NVDA:9000/XOM:4000

Always on, nothing to install. Great for a quick read, a cron job, or a status bar. Free and unauthenticated.

$ stockchat --serve

$ curl localhost:9000/NVDA

$ curl localhost:9000/AAPL/candles

Own the app? It ships the same endpoint built in. Point it at your own local database and curl your machine — no network, no key, nothing leaves your PC. (Rolls out with the next app release.)

Rendered from primary-source data — green up, red down. A pixel-perfect PNG is a /png

away, but the ASCII is the point.

This is not a recording. Every line below is fetched from the same endpoint your shell would hit, and returns the same bytes.

Type a ticker and press Enter. Try NVDA, or click one below.

↑↓ history · Tab completes · help

lists every command

Bare ticker → overview. Add a command for a specific read. Add /sixel

to any chart for a real inline image in your terminal.

/vp/NVDA

, /NVDA/candles/60d

)overview

general overview + key statsohlc

raw daily OHLC bars (add csv)vp

volume profile + POC / value areacandles

candlestick chartchart

daily price chartpnf

point & figure chartrenko

renko chartvolchart

volume chartrschart

relative-strength chart vs SPYarea

filled area price chartweekly

weekly price chartta

technical read (RSI/MACD/Bollinger/…)patterns

candlestick pattern detectionseasonality

monthly & weekday seasonalityvaluation

valuation bands (cheap / expensive)factor

momentum vs value factor profilemoat

moat / durability readdiv

dividend yield / growth / streakpeers

true industry peerstrials

biotech clinical-trial pipelinescorecard

which analysts were actually righttargets

price targets + hit/miss verdictceo

who ran it, and the stock on their watchcsuite

every C-suite seat vs SPYinsiders

insider buys / sellsinsiderown

insider ownership %smart

who's buying it (13F funds)bonds

which funds hold its bondsetfs

which ETFs hold itholds

what an ETF holds (pass an ETF)id

FIGI + share-class siblingsnews

recent headlines + the movesentiment

social sentiment snapshottwits

StockTwits bull/bear sentimentcatalysts

recent 8-K catalystsfilings

SEC filings index (10-Q/10-K/8-K/DEF 14A)earnmove

how it moves on earningsoptions

option chainoi

open interestunusual

unusual options activitycompare

compare 2+ tickers (e.g. /compare/NVDA/AMD)xray

portfolio x-ray (e.g. /xray/AAPL:15000/NVDA:9000)regime

market regime + suggested riskbreadth

market breadthsectors

sector performanceheatmap

market heatmapindustries

industry rotation rankingrs

relative-strength leadersmovers

today's biggest moversshorts

most-shorted stocksinsiderscan

market-wide insider buyingcongress

congressional trade disclosuresunusualscan

market-wide unusual optionsearnings

upcoming earnings calendarrecap

who just reported (earnings recap)ipos

recent IPOsevents

market-wide 8-K catalystsbpi

bullish percent indexsbpi

sector bullish-percent breadthstyle

factor regime — momentum vs valueivcrush

SPY overnight IV crushreddit

trending tickers on Redditbuzz

emerging Reddit buzzcorr

correlation across the markettreasury

US treasury yield curveecon

economic indicators (CPI/jobs/Fed)world

world stock indicescommodities

commodity futuresfx

currencies / US dollar indexclock

market open/closed + today's eventsbriefing

morning briefing$ curl stockchat.sh

prints this list any time. Same engine, plus an AI that runs these tools for you, remembers your portfolio, and answers in plain English — all on your machine.

Free, and if it saves you a subscription — ☕ buy me a coffee.

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