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Algomo uses generative AI and autonomous agents to help companies offer their best customer service across any language Our innovative work has been recognised by Governmental and Private institutions and we have received over $2.7M of funding to accelerate our RnD activities.

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What piece of technology or app do you use in your daily life or remote work life that isn’t so common, but you think others could benefit from using? In this Slogging thread, the HN team dives into the apps and tools we use on a daily basis. This thread by Limarc, Amy Shah, Sidra Zafar, Adrian Morales, Blake Cram, Tirtha, Gimbiya Galadima, Jessica, Iggy and Davis David occurred in hackernoon's official #fellowship-central channel, and has been edited for readability. Slogging Limarc Sep 8, 2021, 5:56 AM What piece of technology do you use in your daily life or remote work life that isn’t so common, but you think others could benefit from using? Limarc Sep 8, 2021, 5:57 AM For me, it is without a doubt, (virtual assistants in general). When I first started working remotely I used Alexa to: Amazon Alexa Create daily task lists Create weekly task lists Set meeting reminders Set task timers Remind me to exercise and move around every hour during my workday Play Skyrim while folding laundry. I still use it for reminders and alarms everyday. I am weary of the invasion of privacy aspect…but I’ve also kinda accepted it. Limarc Sep 8, 2021, 6:00 AM Also I have to say, the might have saved my health throughout this pandemic. I couldn’t go to the gym, and I was too lazy to go jogging, so instead I played games like Beat Saber and Thrill of the Fight to stay in shape in my tiny Tokyo apartment. VR has been a lifesaver and helped keep me sane throughout all the crap we’ve been through in the past 2 years. I even wrote an article about VR fitness games back in the days of my freelance video game writing career: Oculus Quest https://www.keengamer.com/articles/features/opinion-pieces/5-best-vr-fitness-games-on-the-oculus-quest/ Amy Shah Sep 8, 2021, 8:14 AM I used the app ( ) for over 600 days during the Pandemic. It's free and anyone can use it, but there is a premium version available without ads. I learned German primarily. Daily I would just do one lesson for about 5 minutes. That was the extent of my commitment! Recently, someone I know took an introductory college level German class at a university, and I knew enough to help them with their homework because of Duolingo! Duolingo http://duolingo.com Amy Shah Sep 8, 2021, 8:14 AM A lesser known language website is ( ). The company takes existing Youtube videos in other languages and adds a feature to allow you to play them back slowly or loop the videos with subtitles so you can pick up the nuances in languages. There are also games on the website to test your listening and reading comprehension. While the Yabla is not as addictive as Duolingo, it has made learning cultural aspects of a language easier. Yabla offers education in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German. Yabla https://www.yabla.com/ 👀 1 Sidra Zafar Sep 8, 2021, 11:48 AM As I am a PhD student and my research area involves biotechnology, I have to make biological illustrations for my research papers and reports. Previously, I used PowerPoint and paint to draw the biological illustrations which did not come out nicely. So, I came across this ( ) which has lots of pre-defined biological icons like cells, tissues, bacteria etc. This app has electrified my figures game. It comes with free version and a premium version which is paid. biorender app https://biorender.com/ Sidra Zafar Sep 8, 2021, 12:00 PM Also when you are a PhD student your mental health suffers a lot. Most often students find them selves drenched in ocean of scattered thoughts and all you need is to quite your mind. To cater this I have been using a meditation app called ( ). This a free app and comes in guided and semi guided meditation sessions. It also caters stress and anxiety and is ideal for everyone during this pandemic. insight timer https://insighttimer.com/ Adrian Morales Sep 8, 2021, 1:42 PM I'm someone that benefits a lot from having a to-do list, otherwise things might slip my mind. The best app for day planning that I have found has to be You can plan a whole day, sync your calendars and get notifications when it is time to move on to the next part of your day. It keeps me efficient with my time, and it keeps me motivated because love checking boxes off when a task is complete.' Structured. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/structured-day-planner/id1499198946 Blake Cram Sep 9, 2021, 6:16 PM I love being active. At the start of COVID-19's outbreak and as quarantines and stay-in-place orders were issued, I had to be more creative to stay active as places like my rock climbing gym were no longer available. After weeks of scouring the internet for online workouts and yoga classes, I stumbled upon --an app with a wealth of yoga, HIIT workouts, stretching and meditation practices that I can use on my phone or on my laptop. I felt like yoga classes through video were especially hit or miss in quality until I stumbled upon Alo. The instructors communicate movements efficiently and clearly, while the video quality is professionally executed, so it is easy to follow along. The UI on the site is especially approachable in navigating their HUGE library of classes with a large range of class durations and difficulties. I can find what I need to cater to what I need in a given day. I use this app every day and it helps me get take care of my physical and mental health even while stuck at home. https://www.alomoves.com Blake Cram Sep 9, 2021, 6:32 PM Another piece of technology I've been enamored with is the . I used to have a big-brand smartwatch (I won't name any names), and I was really disappointed with the lack of detail in workouts, the laughably short battery life, and pestering reminder of emails, texts and phone calls--that I went to my phone to respond to anyway. I sold my smartwatch, parted with its hefty and absolutely unused cellular plan, and arrived at the Coros. This watch gives me ridiculously detailed running data that I can nerd out over. The watch tracks my running patterns, heart rate, predicts race times, tracks recovery and training efficiency. The battery (no exaggeration) lasts almost two weeks without charging even while running around 30 miles a week. And, I still get basic texts and email notifications if I want them, so I can keep track of things I need to when I'm working.  I got way more of an insight to my health without the headaches. https://coros.com/apex.php Limarc Sep 10, 2021, 3:08 AM Very cool ideas everyone I've already checked them out. I also got a new keyboard and it's official, a mechanical keyboard makes you sound like you type faster than you actually do. Also lights on the keyboard make you feel better at videogames than you actually are. :fireball: 3 Limarc Sep 13, 2021, 5:26 AM how about you Tirtha Amy Eastland Vikram Makkar Joseph Ocasio? Tirtha Sep 14, 2021, 6:11 AM I love making doodles and think with illustrations. If ever I need to plan - whether a software implementation, party planning or just random thought orientation, I use a simple webtool. Also on my ipad, there's an app called sketches( ) I've been using it for making anime n other art, but also to just draw random scribbles and patterns to explain an idea. http://draw.io Tayasui https://apps.apple.com/in/app/tayasui-sketches/id641900855 🙏 1 Limarc Sep 14, 2021, 6:57 AM Tirtha that's awesome. Is it pretty seamless to save your creations to device or email them to yourself, post them on Instagram and things like that? Tirtha Sep 14, 2021, 7:12 AM Yup. In Tayasui, you can do icloud sync, have local storage backup and pretty easy to share via email n other apps. I take backups after a piece is complete and later schedule uploads on Instagram. also allows you to save your work on Google drive, Github, Gitlab & of course, local storage. http://Draw.io Limarc Sep 14, 2021, 8:08 AM What do you all think about this tool? You think it'd help remote teams feel more "connected" ? https://www.remotion.com/ Tirtha Sep 14, 2021, 3:51 PM Interesting one Limarc the team members get to have a balanced engagement with colleagues. Another app in the same space that's getting quite popular is You get to customize your character and move around like those pixel art RPG indie games. 😄 https://www.gather.town/ Limarc Sep 14, 2021, 4:08 PM The HN team loves gathertown!! :all_the_things: 2 Limarc Sep 16, 2021, 5:56 AM How about you: Marc Magrini Iggy Mariannah Giri Khunshan Ahmad Davis David  Jessica What piece of technology do you use in your daily life or remote work life that isn’t so common, but you think others could benefit from using?? Gimbiya Galadima Sep 16, 2021, 8:01 AM I like the concept of Gathertown. It states that I can register for free: a 30-day free registration sounds amazing. So I'll register and see the amazing features it offers. 💚 1 Jessica Sep 16, 2021, 2:22 PM I like using Microsoft for my daily to-do list and to take notes (love the color coding tabs). OneNote 💚 1 Iggy Sep 17, 2021, 5:53 AM I like using , it's so cool and they are easy to use , no charges, I think you should try it out if you are a software engineer, lastly clickup is also one of the best project management software I've used too, you try that out.. Basecamp 🙏 1 Limarc Sep 17, 2021, 6:00 AM Iggy do you have an opinion on Basecamp versus Trello or Notion? Iggy Sep 17, 2021, 6:14 AM Well, what I will say about basecamp is that it took some features from Notion, e.g real-time documentation, file upload, etc then adding on top of it is the real-time group chat feature, meaning you can communicate with the team all in the same app, in my own opinion this helps to keep the team together without having a different platform for chatting. Trello is good for productivity and I guess they are all solving different problems but just some difference . Davis David Sep 17, 2021, 2:12 PM I use to write down some article ideas I want to write or sometimes I  save the link of an article I have read on my mobile phone or my laptop that I want to read more, explore and see if I can write new thing related to the article I read. Google notes

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Ignoring Page Speed Irregular Site Audit Not Updated for Google Algorithm Overlooking Basic Search Engine Optimization(SEO) Not Republish Outdated Content Not Optimizing Images Improper Keywords Usage Not Optimizing Heading Making wrong Content Strategy Not Updating Old Content Wrong CTAs Placement Not Checking GSC Performance Poor Landing Page Design Ignoring EAT Factors Poor Navigation Not Checking Indexability and Crawlability No Schema Optimization No Link to Quality Websites Ignoring Mobile Friendliness and AMP Bad UI/UX Not Implementing Proper Sitemap and Robots Wrong Category and Tag usage No Social Presence Guest Posting on Spammy Websites Not Filtering Spammy Backlinks Let's check out each of these mistakes in detail and ways to refrain from them. 1. Ignoring Page Speed It is the most important factor from the SEO Perspective. Many business owners ignore this. According to stats, 93% of the people will bounce from your website if your web page loads slow. What to do if your website speed is slow: Check the speed of your website with free tools like , , , and Google's Page Speed Insight Pingdom GTmetrix MakeWebBetter Page Speed tool Minify CSS and JS Enable compression Optimizing the Images with less size Remove render-blocking resources Clear cache Minify resources Visible content prioritization 2. Irregular Site Audit Check the technical issues fixes of your website. Google loves websites that are error-free. Having lots of issues on your website can damage your visitors' experience and can harm your website. Audit your website with technical SEO fixes on a weekly or monthly basis. What are the basic errors to check : 404 errors SSL Certificate Sitemap errors Robot.txt Https issues Schema markup Canonical issues HTML issues 3. Not Updated for Google Core Algorithm Google almost changes its algorithms more than 500 times a year. These changes are very small and do not impact many results. But in a year, Google rolls out its twice or thrice.  These core algorithms update impact many websites and in many ways. So, it’s really important to keep an eye on Google Algorithms when they are rolled out. Core Update of Algorithms You can use the following tools to check the Google Updates- , , , etc. SEMrush Sensor Algoroo Moz Cast Some major Google Algorithm are: Panda Penguin Rank Brain Possum Pigeon Fred BERT Hummingbird 4. Overlooking basic SEO Many websites ignore the basic HTML issues of  SEO and meta tags like title, description, etc. Although these are basics of SEO but play a major role to increase your ranking on search engines. What to consider in basic SEO: Focus keyword Keyword usage Meta title Meta description Social tags like OG, twitter card Tags and categories Alt in images Internal & external linkings 5. Not Republishing Outdated Content Often, many bloggers and content writers don't bother to update the older content published on the website. Republishing old content again and again with the latest trend for the topic can give a boost to the ranking of the older blog. What to do of the content which are outdated or obsolete: Remove the blog which is not needed. Deindex the obsolete content Update the blog with new content Republish the blog with optimizing the SEO data. Recheck the less performing blog from GSC and Analytics Link the old blog with new blogs after content is update Share the blogs on social media Reutilize the long content in the form of infographic or SlideShare 6. Not Optimizing Images Images are the decorative and attractive part which make your blogs less boring and help visitors’ to keep engaging with the article till the end. Images help visitors to understand more about the product and services. Source: Bluecorona Things to consider when using images: Use Alt in images with relevant keywords Use correct image name Proper title and description of images Choose correct file name and format Reduce image & file size Use responsive image for desktop, mobile, and tablets Make sure the images are fine for social tags Use data structure/ schema for images 7. Improper Keyword Usage Using proper keywords in your content or on any product page will let the user know what exactly the content is about. The words and phrases help in knowing the user about the blogs and give an overview of the search engines. Keywords Research is also important because they improve your search engine rankings. Ranking high on search engines needs keyword research as a top priority for an SEO campaign. In fact, we can say that without proper keyword research, implementing SEO is impossible. Source: Backlinko Pro-tips to use keywords properly: Plan your topic and the content flow Choose a focus keyword, related and LSI/ semantic keywords Use the keywords in content, heading, title, description, image alt, etc. Use tools like Google trends, GSC, Ubersuggest, etc to do keyword research. Use long-tail keywords Do competitor analysis Always check volume, competition, CPC, difficulty of keywords Don’t do keyword stuffing 8. Not Optimizing Headings Heading optimization leads to the proper text structure of the content. It also improves the accessibility and enhances SEO of the page. Heading also improves the readability of the page. Tips to optimize the headings: Use keywords in headings Use keywords in subheadings Don't make your heading of more than 300 words Add subheading if you have more content to describe. Use only one H1. Don’t duplicate H1 and Title. Use proper H2-H6 in a sequence form Don't stuff keywords in any heading and subheadings 9. Framing Wrong Content Strategy Planning a good content strategy with good topic scheduling can take your website to a higher level. We all know that content is king. Content is the major part for which SEO is performed. Content is used everywhere on websites. Be it a landing page, blogs, articles, images, etc. Some strategies to sum up while making content: Always publish long-form content Content must be SEO friendly Write content for people to give them knowledge Provide relevant information to users. Write fresh content. Don’t steal another's content. Don’t do content spinning. Do proper research before starting with your content idea. 10. Not Updating Old Content Republishing your old content is a must if it's outdated. According to stats, the older your content will be, the less chances to rank and visible over SERPs. Google uses fresh content to determine your website rankings. To maintain yourself on top, you need to update your content consistently which boosts freshness and SEO. If you are not interested in updating the old content and think it’s outdated or obsolete, you can remove it from your website. Source: Neil Patel What are the benefits to keep your content updated? Boost in rankings Improves website overall SEO performance. Improves CTR Providing new information to visitors Showing Google that your website is fresh and updated. Improve the accuracy of the topic & content You can add more link and remove broken links Add relevant resources with new keywords 11. Wrong CTAs placement CTAs or Call to Actions may not be a direct ranking factor but it can surely hurt your website and the user experience. Having a good placement of CTAs can increase your sales and conversion by 200%. Making good and attractive CTAs can bring you leads. Some tips to make a good CTAs: Add attractive words like submit, try for free instead of join us, click here, etc. Choose the perfect place to add the CTA button. Use urgency keywords to bring the customer’s attention. Use bold and clear CTAs Show CTA on exit. Show offers & CTA via popup. Always do A/B testing Use variants over landing pages and blogs. 12. Not Checking GSC Performance It’s necessary to check the overall performance of the website via the free tool (GSC). Many business owners and websites don't have GSC or don't check the performance report of blogs or content. Google Search Console Google Search Console is a free tool and in SEO, it helps us to tell about the performance on the basis of and Top Pages, Search Queries, Country, Devices. Top features to check on GSC are: Performance Overview Sitemap Removals & Other actions on Pages Security & manual Actions Coverage Issues Links actions like disavow and sitelinks Enhancement Legacy tools and Reports 13. Poor Landing Page Design Landing pages drive visitors through all the important links and sections where you want them to click and visit. You need to put using which visitors can easily navigate throughout the website. important elements on your landing pages Some best practices to improve landing pages: Design it as simple as you can Use Z or F layout Use contrasting colors Use attractive CTAs properly Use more content with optimized images Try A/B test Don’t distract visitors Add testimonials 14. Ignoring EAT factors or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness factors are the basic and important guidelines which Google provides for all websites. EAT in SEO It consists of concepts like Page Quality, YMYL (Your Money, Your Life), Need Met, and many other factors that should be checked by all websites to increase its effectiveness. It tells about the search quality of the pages existing on your website. Some important criteria to check in EAT: Measuring of links Quality How much people trust your website Signals from search engines Reviews and ratings Mentioning from other authoritative sources Spam check Not following the data structure markup Following Google Algorithm updates 15. Poor Navigation Navigation is crucial and must be optimized by every website. It can result in the best success in terms of conversions or can decline your website to failure and no sale. It also impacts the user experience as well as the friendliness of the website. Some major points which you should note: Styling of menu bar Following standards Stuffing in menu bar and submenu Wrong navigation links and order Using of labels and texts Dropdown listing in wrong way Mobile-friendliness Responsiveness 16. Not Checking Indexability and Crawlability Google bots check the pages on the website and then index and crawl your website. So it’s very important to check your website that it must not create any issues in crawling. A checklist to review: Structure of website Redirects and loops Errors of Server or Client Server errors Blocking of resources/ web access Internal links Sitemap issues Unblocking the Robot.txt CSS and JS 17. No Schema Optimization Schema markup helps in letting Google know the proper structure of the website and boosts your SEO. It helps in showing featured snippets over search engines to help visitors get the knowledge quickly and accurately. Some important schema markup are as follows: Organization WPHeader/WPFooter FAQs Site Navigation News Blog/ Article Products Reviews 18. No Links to Quality Websites Quality links to your website and on the website, both are important. The more easily link juice will pass, the more your website is read by Google in an efficient way. Make sure to add good external links on your website and try to acquire backlinks from authoritative websites. Source: Neil Patel Some points to recheck: Add Nofollow link on an external website if you don’t trust them. Give dofollow links to the website you trust. Check PA/ DA of the website before adding any link. Don't buy links. Don’t Spam Link websites related to your niche Avoid Reciprocal links Low-quality links 10. Ignoring Mobile Friendliness and AMP Making you page mobile-friendly and implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages(AMP) is not that tiresome. But most of the websites take it lightly. It helps the visitors to check your website and go through your pages easily. Google also considers AMP and mobile friendliness as a top priority while ranking websites. Source: MakeWebBetter SEO tool Tips for AMP and Mobile SEO: Use AMP version for blog Check your website on tools like Mobile-friendliness test Check speed on both Mobile and desktop Add another layout and design for Mobile Version Check responsiveness on Desktop, Laptop, and Mobile devices Use Structured Data or Schema Optimize title and description for mobile SERPs Check CTR & other performance for mobile devices. 20. Bad UI/UX Poor UI/ UX can result in the failure of your website. Whenever any visitor comes on your website, the first thing they feel and observe is the UI/ UX. It should be attractive and easy to navigate so that they can reach other pages without any difficulty. Some tips for UI/UX: Follow the Website Guideline of EAT Increase dwell time Improve page speed Simple website structure Invest in site responsiveness Make website user friendly Proper navigation Helpful CTAs 21. Not Implementing Proper Sitemap and Robots Sitemaps.xml helps the Google bot to review and go through the website pages linking to each other easily. It contains the list of pages according to their category and subcategory Robots.txt tells which page should be crawled and which are not to be crawled. If you want any page not to crawl by google you can add them on the robot.txt file. Some points to review: Use single sitemap Implement proper sitemap structure Add a robot.txt file Check crawling budget Add the pages in robot.txt which are not needed Remove low-quality pages Test the pages regularly Optimize categories and page in sitemap 22. Wrong Category and Tag Usage Categories and tags help to boost SEO and help Google to understand your pages in a proper manner. WordPress Plugins like have an inbuilt feature to set the categories and tags in a user-friendly manner for Google as well as for visitors. Yoast Some points to take care while using tags and categories: Use keywords & related keywords in categories Don’t over-optimize Use relevant tags & categories for product and categories Do proper SEO Avoid stuffing of keywords Connect pages with the categories wherever needed Don't stuff pages with so many tags Setup tags and categories in the sitemap.xml file 23. No Social Presence Nowadays, social media plays an important role for websites. If you don't have social media links on your website, then you must start doing it today. Social platforms boost your visibility and give positive signals to the search engines. Make a social media checklist where you can prepare the list of tasks you need to do on particular social media platforms. Following are the channels with different benefits in terms of SEO: YouTube: Launch a channel where you can post your videos. Facebook: Crete you brown shops and link schedule posting as per your choice LinkedIn: Most professional platforms for B2B marketing Instagram: Showcase your products in a creative way. Pinterest: Add infographics, carousel, images, etc Twitter: Create tweets and find influencers easily Snapchat: create live stories and post TikTok: be trending in the form of short videos 24. Guest Posting on Spammy Websites Many SEO or website owners believe that doing guest posts will benefit your business and gain authority. It's really true but doing them in the wrong way can hurt your rankings too. Some suggestions for guest posts: Don’t approve any guest post from the person whom you don't trust Don’t do guest posts on spammy websites Flag inappropriate if you get a request too many times Check authority of the website Check EAT factors Connect websites of your niche if you want to do guest posting Allow guest posts if they are related to yours Ask for links but not URLs 25. Not Filtering Spammy Backlinks Filtering backlinks is one of the most important SEO tasks which people ignore. But to be serious, you should check and audit your website’s backlinks on a weekly or monthly basis. It’ll help you to protect your website from spammy websites that link back to your domain anonymously. Here are some todos: Audit your backlinks from tools like SEMrush, Moz, etc Select the links which have low trust scores or less domain authority Filter out the links which look spammy Check the link from GSC Check Spam percentage from Moz ToolBar Start making the list of links and add them to tool Google’s disavow Review the list of links which you disavow from tools again Protect your website from spam & stop ruining your website Conclusion Making a good and SEO friendly website needs consistent checks and audits. You need to check all points, ranging from technical to basic SEO. Performing SEO in an incorrect way can result in a bad health score of your website and hence will impact the overall performance of the website; not only in terms of SEO but also in terms of conversions and sales with loss in revenue. Take all precautionary measures and actions on your website and remain beloved in the eyes of Google and other search engines.

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Hey Hackers, We're proud to introduce Algomo - an platform with the goal of revolutionising customer service! We are building an AI platform that helps companies of any size fully automate their customer service in 100+ languages, easily and affordably. AI Our chatbots are capable of sourcing data from various inputs like URLs, PDFs and Notion pages and in under 5 minutes are able to answer any question a customer has! We’ve been nominated for HackerNoon and this is our interview. Startups of the Year Vote for us today! https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-london-england-uk My Role My name is Charis Sfyrakis, I hold a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and I am an alumnus of Entrepreneur First, HSBC (where I built their global chatbot framework), Barclays & BNP Paribas. I am the CEO here at Algomo where I focus on leading the Algomo team; from helping our business development team reach as many people as possible to reviewing our tech team’s progress, I spend my days elevating and inspiring my employees whilst making sure that we are on track to achieve our goals and bring our vision to life! How We're Disrupting/Improving the Customer Service/Chabot Industry These days, customers have high expectations when it comes to customer service. One poor experience can wipe away any loyalty, with over $75 billion in revenue being lost by companies as a result of bad customer service and 9/10 customers saying that they have switched to a competitor following a bad customer experience. Similarly, despite $1.3tn being spent on customer service calls every year, 91% of customers prefer self help tools over calling a help centre and 9/10 customers say quick responses to inquiries are important when deciding what company to buy from. Chatbots are usually used solely for simple queries, and thus fail to consider the rest of the customer journey - resulting in low market penetration, lost customers and low CSAT scores for firms. In addition, 7/10 customers prefer companies that support their native language whilst just 28% of users receive support in their language, and 87% of consumers who don’t understand English won’t even consider buying from an English website.  For other monolingual AI tools, every language requires building a separate AI, making it expensive and resource-intensive. Training a bot takes ages, as one needs to provide a lot of training data across multiple languages. And that’s where we come in. We are utilising the cutting-edge technology of generative AI to build the ultimate customer service platform. We pride ourselves on the efficacy and simplicity of our chatbots - enabling 45% of customer support interactions to be resolved through automation with a 92% model accuracy, all of which can be set up in under 5 minutes, in over 100 languages. Standing Out from The Crowd At Algomo, we know that being successful in a market as hot as AI customer service will require being the best at what we do and allowing our product to speak for itself. We’re initially targeting companies in low-resource languages - which is an untapped market - and we have bundled 3 traditionally separate products (AI, localisation and LiveChat) to create a truly unique product, which outperforms competitors in multilingual capabilities and ease of setup. Our platform offers AI and live chat in 109 languages without the need for translations and seamless transition between all languages within the same chat. Also, our customers can build a bot using just a URL and integrate all internal documents with a click of a button. We also top the charts in terms of fitting into the existing set-up of our customers, as our platform enables them to connect to existing tools such as Notion, Hubspot and Slack and reply to customer queries from email or Slack. Our product is also optimised for SMEs (not just corporates, as compared to other providers), so our increased accessibility sets us apart even more. We know that putting customers first is crucial when building a startup, and we believe that our product is suited to their needs better than everyone else. Our Predictions/Thoughts on the Customer Service Industry in 2023 ChatGPT has changed the world, expanding our beliefs about what technology is possible of doing. After Open AI’s brainchild reached 100 million monthly active users in 2 months, it has officially been declared the fastest-growing app in internet history. For a number of years, many firms have already been using AI to resolve millions of customer inquiries. But now ChatGPT’s powerful communication skills are being combined with the ability to integrate into commercial systems like internal knowledge bases and CRMs, with firms seeing customer requests being resolved end to end at the same level as human agents. The customer service industry is currently facing the lowest satisfaction ratings in decades due to a shortage of agents and growing demand, so the use of LLMs will be a major topic for companies trying to earn back customer loyalty in 2023. Over the last few years, contact centres have increasingly utilised AI to deal with common requests such as billing and account management, and this trend will extend into 2023. This has helped to diminish wait times and free agents to spend more time on revenue-generating issues, with cost saving estimates of more than $80 billion by 2026. Despite the immense benefits of leveraging LLMs in a firm’s customer service strategy, they do not come without risks. The main one is hallucinations, where an answer is given that is not actually accurate. As companies see customer support as a chance to repair any damage to its reputation in the eyes of a customer, giving them an incorrect answer to a query is the last thing the company wants. That is why at Algomo we will be constantly working throughout 2023 to limit these occurrences in our chatbots, to ensure that the huge advantages of this new technology can be harnessed by all firms without apprehension. What word defines the state of the Customer Service Industry in 2023? The word that we would use to define the state of the customer service chatbot industry is transforming. Facing consumers who are increasingly seeking instant gratification, with TikTok counting approximately 1.7 billion users worldwide in 2022 (up by over 66 percent compared to 2020), and with increasing digital penetration in developing economies with previously underserved languages - as the next billion internet users will primarily come from economically fast-growing emerging and developing nations - it is essential that customer service keeps up. These shifts in customer personas must be catered to if firms want to attract and retain customers to keep their businesses thriving. Thus, the move towards the automation of customer inquiries leveraging AI technology is becoming more and more essential, granting adopting firms a competitive advantage over those who do not.  Furthermore, multilingual capabilities are becoming necessary if a firm wants to grow and cater to the wide array of increasingly digitally savvy consumers from around the world. In these times of great change, at Algomo we have spent countless hours evolving our product to position ourselves to help companies best cater to the modern consumer. We would love to get your support to help us do more! Why we decided to participate in HackerNoon's Startup of the Year awards We wanted to take part in HackerNoon’s Startup of the Year awards this year as we wanted to show the world the progress that we have been making. So far, we have created a full-fledged solution and launched a beta version of our product - and it works! We have gained 25 customers and 100 Monthly Active Users (MAUs) since our launch in June 2023, and we are just getting started! We hope to develop our tool-calling capabilities, such as with Shopify, and extend the presence of AI in more of the customer interaction process. It is an exhilarating time here at Algomo as we are going from strength to strength, improving our product to better serve our customers every day, and we hope that you are as excited as we are! Final Thoughts Having received grants from Innovate UK, Algomo is clearly being recognised for its importance in progressing the use of AI to the wider economy. Using cutting-edge technology and with an outstanding team, we are confident in our ability to make the interaction between companies and customers as smooth and efficient as possible. We hope that you can help us on our mission! Vote for us today! https://hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-london-england-uk

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The wait is over! - it’s time to celebrate the champion startups of the world. Shout out to all of the participants in our ! You did a wonderful job showcasing your incredible startups and powering through another year. 2023 Startups of the Year is a community-driven voting platform brought to you by HackerNoon that recognizes and celebrates tech startups changing technology and the world for the better. The award started on May 8th, 2023, where the internet nominated and voted for 30k startups around the world. The voting period remained open until December 31, 2023, and now we are here with the winner announcement after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team. Startups of the Year 2023 To see the top 3 startups in each respective city, visit and pick a city. hackernoon.com/startups You’ll get a little surprise 😉 Here are the Startups of the Year Regional Announcements: North America Europe Asia Africa South America Oceania Misc/Remote From all of us at HackerNoon, thank YOU for your excellent campaign perseverance 🥺 This year has been awesome! Startups of the Year 2023 is concluded with 623k+ total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition. We look forward to seeing you again in the next campaign (stay tuned 😉)! Without further ado, let us kick off the announcement by celebrating the cities with top votes per region for 2023 🎉 North America (11,697 votes): Winner: Bloomfilter Cleveland, Ohio (8,835 votes) - Winner: SerpApi Austin, Texas , California (5,564 votes) - Winner: Finch San Francisco (4,258 votes) - Winner: RELAYTO SoMa, California - (3339 votes) Winner: Windscribe Toronto, Canada, North America (3304 votes) - Winner: Vouched Seattle (2716 votes) - Winner: Seccuri Palo Alto, CA, North America (2671 votes) - Winner: Salsa Valley Miami, FL, North America (2,613 votes) - Winner: Majhi Group Manhattan, New York (2423 votes) - Winner: Flieber, Inc. New York City, NY, North America See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, North America, here Europe (45,612 votes) - Winner: Algomo London, UK (2,344votes) - Winner: Data Lake Warsaw, Poland (1,955 votes) - Winner: Hoken Tech Bari, Italy (1716 votes) - Winner: Not8 Amsterdam, Netherlands (1657 votes) - Winner: KYVE Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (1566 votes) - Winner: BazaIT Kyiv, Ukraine (1496 votes) - Winner:  Unity Network Tallinn, Estonia (1,478 votes) - Winner: Volcaino Ghent, Belgium (1,288 votes) - Winner: Owl Me Dublin, Ireland (1198 votes) - Winner: Groover Paris, France See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Europe, here Oceania (3,350 votes) - Winner: Sharepass Melbourne (2,107 votes) - Winner: The Catfisher Project Perth, Australia (220 votes) - Winner: Gemini AI Solutions Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania (213 votes) - Winner: Nexustorage Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania (138 votes) - Winner: Coviu Sydney (124 votes) - Winner: Bopple Brisbane, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Regional CFO New South Wales, Australia, Oceania (106 votes) - Winner: Edit on the Spot Gold Coast, Australia, Oceania (93 votes) - Winner: Knowledge Satnav Canbera, Australia, Oceania , Australia, Oceania (48 votes) - Winner: Peptalk360 North Melbourne, Melbourne See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Oceania, here Asia (16,345 votes) - Winner: Serenity Shield Singapore (13,588 votes) - Winners: QUIXY Telangana, India (10,168 votes) - Winner: HealthySure Mumbai, India (3,865 votes) - Winner: InterviewBuddy Visakhapatnam, India (3,733 votes) - Winner: Omniflo Bengaluru, India (4589 votes) - Winner: MeNow Tel Aviv (3877 votes) - Winner: ForestVPN Dubai (2478 votes) - Winner: TechGraph Powai, Mumbai, India (1004 votes) - Winner: Reelo Ahmedabad, GJ, India (875 votes) - Winner: Debt Hunter Hong Kong, China See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Asia, here Africa (8,179 votes) - Winner: GO PLATFORM Algiers, Algeria (767 votes) - Winner: Tudu Accra, Ghana (415 votes) - Winner: Treford Lagos, Nigeria (265 votes) - Winner: Phalconwise Ogbomosho, Nigeria (157 votes) - Winner: AbuErdan Cairo (151 votes) - Winner: Eazipay Lekki (144 votes) - Winner: KaziConnect Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (101 votes) - Winner: faceATT Gauteng, South Africa (79 votes) - Winner: Dimagi Cape Town (71 votes) - Winner: Sabi Addis Ababa See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Africa, here South America (376 votes ) - Winner: UpGirl Santiago, Chile (217 votes) - Winner: Klever Sao Paulo, Brazil (191 votes) - Winner: Tributo Simple Buenos Aires, Argentina (127 votes) - Winner: Light-it Montevideo, Uruguay (87 votes) -Winner: Thousand Antioquia, Colombia (108 votes) - Winner: GetLavado Lima (101 votes) - Winner: Cogniflow Medellin (73 votes) - Winner: TPAGA Bogota (73 votes) - Winner: Reliv Quito (47 votes) - WInner: Quantex Cordoba See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, South America, here Misc/Remote: Featured Startups (1500 votes) - Winner: CIC Chain Remote, Earth (1193 votes) - Winner: Reship Colony US Misc (146 Votes) - Winner: Partful UK, Misc (116 votes) - Winner: GoMining British Virgin Islands Misc (283 Votes) - Winner: tomorrowSpace Germany Misc (225 votes) - Winner: Dtravel Cayman Islands See the complete announcement for Misc/Remote startups . here Once again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and BIG PROPS to all of the top Startups of each region this year! The whole team at HackerNoon would like to thank you for your perseverance in the campaign, and we look forward to seeing you in the next campaign. About HackerNoon’s Startups Of The Year Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city. Visit our page to learn more. 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On a scale from 1 to 10 how good are your data warehousing skills? Want to go above 7/10? This article is for you then. How good is your SQL? Want to get ready for a job interview asap? This blog post explains the most intricate data warehouse SQL techniques in detail. I will use BigQuery standard SQL dialect to scribble down a few thoughts on this topic. 1. Incremental tables and MERGE Updating table is important. It is important indeed. Ideal situation is when you have transactions that are a PRIMARY key, unique integers and auto increment. Table update in this case is simple: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/18775cbbe8288af864ad79247c0de63d?embedable=true#file-1-1-sql That is not always the case when working with denormalized star-schema datasets in modern data warehouses. you might be tasked to create with SQL and/or incrementally update datasets with just a portion of data. might not exist but instead you will have to deal with data model where unique key depends on the latest (or timestamp) known. For example, in dataset depends on the latest known connection timestamp. In this case you would want to existing users and the new ones. sessions transaction_id transaction_id user_id last_online update insert MERGE and incremental updates You can use or you can split the operation into two actions. One to update existing records with new ones and one to insert completely new ones that don't exits (LEFT JOIN situation). MERGE is a statement that is generally used in relational databases. Google BigQuery MERGE Command is one of the Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. It is often used to perform three main functions atomically in one single statement. These functions are UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE. MERGE UPDATE or DELETE clause can be used when two or more data match. INSERT clause can be used when two or more data are different and do not match. The UPDATE or DELETE clause can also be used when the given data does not match the source. This means that the Google BigQuery MERGE Command enables you to merge Google BigQuery data by updating, inserting, and deleting data from your Google BigQuery tables. Consider this SQL: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/5ad1a7518c54bc030d1c78b56fe3cf82?embedable=true#file-1-2-sql 2. Counting words Doing UNNEST() and check if the word you need is in the list you need migth be useful in many situation, i.e. data warehouse sentiment analysis: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/694e040539b0d1b556f8e053d315a3bf?embedable=true#file-2-sql 3. Using IF() statement outside of the SELECT statement This gives us an opportunity to save some lines of code and be more eloquent code-wise. Normally you would want to put this into a sub-query, and add a filter in the clause but you can do instead: where this https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/933e6a358e49dcccd4e547a5509c8fda?embedable=true#file-3-sql Another example how to use it with tables. . This is bad example because since the matching table suffixes are probably determined dynamically (based on something in your table) you NOT partitioned Don't do this will be charged for a full table scan. https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/1c62d79cd9690140c569cd047b9d491f?embedable=true#file-3-2-sql You can also use it in clause and functions. HAVING AGGREGATE 4. Using GROUP BY ROLLUP The ROLLUP function is used to perform aggregation at multiple levels. This is useful when you have to work with dimension graphs. The following query returns the total credit spend per day by the transaction type (is_gift) specified in the clause, and it also shows the total spend for each day and the total spend in all the dates available. where https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/4cf738aaad967fe92c4fb7192874fadf?embedable=true#file-4-sql 5. Convert table to JSON Imagine you are required to convert your table into JSON object where each record is an element of nested array. This is where function becomes useful: to_json_string() https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/aac1f93312ae305ba80c915fe4a2a386?embedable=true#file-5-sql Then you can use it anywhere: dates, marketing funnels, indices, histogram graphs, etc. 6. Using PARTITION BY Given , and columns. For EACH date, how do you show the total revenue value for EACH customer while keeping all the rows? You can achieve this like so: user_id date total_cost https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/e4f11721eb5a3182150df08f25b70d64?embedable=true#file-6-sql 7. Moving average Very often BI developers are tasked to add a moving average to their reports and fantastic dashboards. This might be 7, 14, 30 day/month or even year MA line graph. So how do we do it? https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/ebf5488d0036bc9b84ae05889346d986?embedable=true#file-7-sql 8. Date arrays Becomes really handy when you work with or want to check some dataset for missing values, i.e. dates. BigQuery has a function called : user retention GENERATE_DATE_ARRAY https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/2ba5a67053f85794462dab98e56ad74d?embedable=true#file-8-sql 9. Row_number() This is useful to get something latest from your data, i.e. latest updated record, etc. or even to remove duplicates: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/05d0c04c5975207d98552ffd436add8b?embedable=true#file-9-sql 10. NTILE() Another numbering function. Really useful to monitor things like if you have a mobile app. For example, I have my App connected to Firebase and when users I can see how long it took for them. Login duration in seconds login This function divides the rows into buckets based on row ordering and returns the 1-based bucket number that is assigned to each row. The number of rows in the buckets can differ by at most 1. The remainder values (the remainder of number of rows divided by buckets) are distributed one for each bucket, starting with bucket 1. If evaluates to NULL, 0 or negative, an error is provided. constant_integer_expression constant_integer_expression https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/16fe941aa8c4ed79e4aad8b7049b307a?embedable=true#file-10-sql 11. Rank / dense_rank They are also called functions. I tend to use as it doesn't skip the next available ranking whereas would. It returns consecutive rank values. You can use it with a partition which divides the results into distinct buckets. Rows in each partition receive the same ranks if they have the same values. numbering DENSE_RANK as default ranking function RANK Example: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/459b68c5f3d1e8284c01e516db1d8dcb?embedable=true#file-11-1-sql Another example with product prices: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/4c90a6fc8516d8264e172676a83a1048?embedable=true#file-11-2-sql 12. Pivot / unpivot Pivot changes rows to columns. It's all it does. Unpivot does the . opposite https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/f90b035ba259e672d4d51a669e0cd1fc?embedable=true#file-12-sql 13. First_value / last_value That's another useful function which helps to get a delta for each row against the first / last value in that particular partition. https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/ea4de9144b97bf8c196cab07609c309e?embedable=true#file-13-sql 14. Convert a table into Array of structs and pass them to UDF This is useful when you need to apply a user defined function (UDF) with some complex logic to each row or a table. You can always consider your table as an array of TYPE STRUCT objects and then pass each one of them to UDF. It depends on your logic. For example, I use it to calculate purchase expire times: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/35d956fa9db86b12b44ab62c00f42a40?embedable=true#file-14-sql In a similar way you can create tables with no need to use . For example, I use it to mock some test data for unit tests. This way you can do it very fast just by using + + in your editor. UNION ALL Alt Shift Down https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/6ea226c1b5b789d4a31691ce065c20d7?embedable=true#file-14-2-sql 15. Creating event funnels using FOLLOWING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING Good example might be marketing funnels. Your dataset might contain continiously repeating events of the same type but ideally you would want to chain each event with next one of a different type. This might be useful when you need to get a list of something, i.e. events, purchases, etc. in order to build a funnels dataset. Working with PARTITION BY it gives you the opportunity to group all the follwoing events no matter how many of them exists ineach partition. https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/05fd7d79d8acf3b173181a5d950ab6e7?embedable=true#file-15-sql 16. Regexp You would to use it if you need to extract something from unstructured data, i.e. fx rates, custom groupings, etc. Working with currency exchange rates using regexp Consider this example with exchange rates data: https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/9ca6e153da19c491034bd57995875308?embedable=true#file-16-1-sql Working with App versions using regexp Sometimes you might want to use to get , or versions for your app and a create a custom report: regexp major release mod https://gist.github.com/mshakhomirov/b1f442a296ffef52c7baa1245e1dc316?embedable=true#file-16-2-sql Conclusion SQL is a powerful tool that helps to manipulate data. Hopefuly these SQL use cases from digital marketing will be useful for you. It's a handy skill indeed and can help you with many projects. These SQL snippets made my life a lot easier and I use at work alomost every day. More, SQL and modern data warehouses are essentials tools for data science. Its robust dialect features allow to model and visualize data with ease. Because SQL is the language that data warehouses and business intelligence professionals use, it's an excellent selection if you want to share data with them. It is the most common way to communicate with almost every data warehouse / lake solution in the market. Originally published in by mydataschool.com datamike Mike is a passionate and digitally focussed individual with an abundance of drive and enthusiasm, loving the challenges the full mix of digital marketing throws up. Lives in the UK, completed MBA from Newcastle University in 2015.

16 SQL Techniques Every Beginner Needs to Know

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Automating My Manual Scalping Trading Strategy One of the advantages of running automatic trading strategies is that you can quickly and consistently act on price action. Even if you have enough time to trade the same idea manually, you need to watch the market movement very closely and keep paying attention to multiple monitors. With algorithmic trading, you can automate this on . Alpaca Also, please keep in mind that this is only an example to help get you started. Consider testing a strategy in paper trading to see if and how it works before trying it in a live brokerage account. If you'd prefer to "fast forward" to full code, go ! directly to the GitHub repository What is Scalping Strategy? There are many types of trading strategies, but this one is called . “scalping” strategy Scalping attempts to take smaller profits quicker, which can add up, without risking your assets holding for long. It requires a strict exit strategy, though, because one large loss could eliminate the many small gains. The above-referenced article explains the strategy in more detail, as well as the different types of scalping. Many day traders are applying this idea, but in order to do this manually, a lot of energy and attention is required in order to keep monitoring the large amounts of information on the screen. Why Scalping Strategy for Algorithmic Trading? When looking back at the intraday chart at the end of the day, it is possible to see different missed opportunities. However, it's not always possible to act during market hours. There could also be even more opportunities if it were possible to monitor a dozen stocks independently versus just looking at one stock. For example, when looking at a TradingView chart for SPY with 20 minute simple moving average on 10/04/19 (below), it's possible to see price crossover where it would have been possible to have taken a small profit if the position had been timely. With the scalping strategy, the goal isn't for a large profit margin, rather, aim for a small upward price movement while it’s going up. It's usually too hard to monitor even a few charts at the same time manually, so that's where algorithms come in. Automate This! Python’s asyncio to Manage Algo Flow What if I can have many of me watching each stock. I started coding based on the idea and found Python’s asyncio is pretty useful to manage algorithm flow for multiple stocks, each of which I found to be pretty simple. Check out Python's Asyncio here! Starting with a Single Stock To begin with a single stock, I wrote a class that manages simple state and event handler for a single stock using (simplified below). Alpaca API self._symbol = symbol
     self._bars = []
     self._state = self._bars =  self._bars.append(bar) self._state == : self._check_signal():
         self._submit_buy()
         self._state = event == : self._state == :
         self._submit_sell( self._get_last_price() + )
         self._state = self._state == :
         self._state = : class ScalpAlgo : def __init__ (self, symbol) 'TO_BUY' : def on_bar (self, bar) '''called when new bar arrives''' if 'TO_BUY' if 'BUY_SUBMITTED' : def on_order_event (self, event) '''called if order status changes''' if 'fill' if 'BUY_SUBMITTED' 0.01 'SELL_SUBMITTED' elif 'SELL_SUBMITTED' 'TO_BUY' The main flow is pretty simple as you can see. It is basically a state machine with 4 distinct states, and given the new event (signal can be triggers, order fills, etc.), the state transitions to look for the next action. In the , I am calculating 20-minute simple moving average and compare with the price. _check_signal() function mavg =  self._bars.rolling( ).mean().close.values
    closes =  self._bars.close.values closes[ ] < mavg[ ] closes[ ] > mavg[ ]: : : def _calc_buy_signal (self) 20 if -2 -2 and -1 -1 return True else return False Subscribing Websockets Since it is important to take action as quickly as the signal triggers, we subscribe to the real-time bar updates from Polygon websockets as well as Alpaca’s order event websockets. Everything is event-driven. stream = alpaca.StreamConn()
  algo = ScalpAlgo( )  @stream.on( ) algo.on_bar(data)  @stream.on( ) algo.on_order_event(data.event)
  stream.run([ , ]) : def main () 'SPY' 'AM.SPY' async : def on_bar (conn, channel, data) 'trade_updates' async : def on_order_event (conn, channel, data) 'AM.SPY' 'trade_updates' This run() function runs in definitely until the program stops. All events are dispatched to the event handlers in Python’s asyncio loop, driven by the new messages from websockets. Focus on the State Transitions Once the structure is built, all you need to do is to focus on the state transitions in a couple of different cases. Beyond the simplified sample code above, you may want to handle cancel/rejection event for your buy order. If you want to forget about it since you don’t have the position, but want to get in next time the same signal triggers, then you will set the state to TO_BUY so you can reset the state. You may also want to consider setting those orders to cancel orders if they don’t fill within the reasonable timeframe after submission. Or those working orders may be canceled from dashboard. Now, the question is how to scale this to dozens of stocks? It’s important to keep the signal as strict as possible so that you don’t get into a position under an unintended situation to buy. The more you tighten the signal rule, the less entry opportunities you have. However, you should have more opportunities if you run this against dozens of stocks. Concurrent algorithm Scaling This to Multiple Stocks To scale this idea to many stocks you want to watch, there is actually not much more to do. The ScalpAlgo already takes the stock symbol as parameter, and manages state for this symbol only, which means you just need to create more of this class instance with different symbols. As an example: stream = alpaca.StreamConn()
  fleet = {}
  symbols = ( , , ) symbol symbols:
    fleet[symbol] = ScalpAlgo(symbol)  @stream.on( ) data.symbol fleet:
       fleet[data.symbl].on_bar(data)  @stream.on( ) order = data.order order[ ]:
      fleet[order[ ]).on_order_event(data.event)  stream.run([ + symbol symbols] + [ ]) : def main () 'SPY' 'QQQ' 'DIA' for in 'AM.*' async : def on_bar (conn, channel, data) if in 'trade_updates' async : def on_order_event (conn, channel, data) if 'symbol' 'symbol' 'AM.' for 'trade_updates' The fleet holds each algorithm instance in a dictionary using symbol as the key. This way, each of the algorithm code does not even need to know if there is another algo working on something different at the time. Putting Together Read the full code here! As you can see, the entire script including logging and corner case handling is less than 300 lines. The only dependency is and you can also use pipenv to create virtualenv. Once API key is set in environment variables and dependency is installed you'll see something like the following: Alpaca Python SDK $ python main.py SPY FB TLT Then, you will see something like this. : : , :main.py: :INFO:SPY:received bar start = : : : , close = , len(bars) = : : , :main.py: :INFO:SPY:closes[ :] = [ ], mavg[ :] = [ ] : : , :main.py: :INFO:FB:received bar start = : : : , close = , len(bars) = : : , :main.py: :INFO:FB:closes[ :] = [ ], mavg[ :] = [ ] : : , :main.py: :INFO:AAPL:received bar start = : : : , close = , len(bars) = : : , :main.py: :INFO:AAPL:closes[ :] = [ ], mavg[ :] = [ ] : : , :main.py: :INFO:TLT:received bar start = : : : , close = , len(bars) = : : , :main.py: :INFO:TLT:buy signal: closes[ ] < mavg[ ] closes[ ] > mavg[ ] : : , :main.py: :INFO:TLT:submitted buy Order({ : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : , : }) 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 250 119 2019 -10 -04 14 48 00 -04 00 293.71 319 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 254 106 -2 293.64 293.71 -2 293.618215 293.62921 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 281 119 2019 -10 -04 14 48 00 -04 00 180.69 319 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 286 106 -2 180.609 180.69 -2 180.488985 180.511485 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 437 119 2019 -10 -04 14 48 00 -04 00 227.33 319 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 441 106 -2 227.3088 227.33 -2 227.114355 227.13985 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 455 119 2019 -10 -04 14 48 00 -04 00 145.65 319 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 458 101 -2 145.6 -2 145.60542 -1 145.65 -1 145.60992000000002 2019 -10 -04 18 49 04 676 180 'asset_class' 'us_equity' 'asset_id' '1f8bfbdf-083a-4ebe-ad36-eaf6b6f0cb9d' 'canceled_at' None 'client_order_id' 'f3c7a968-baba-454b-9691-a90810a389b4' 'created_at' ' 2019-10-04 T 18:49:04 .658502572Z' 'expired_at' None 'extended_hours' False 'failed_at' None 'filled_at' None 'filled_avg_price' None 'filled_qty' '0' 'id' '1aeeb723-34bc-4561-8016-8f916538509c' 'limit_price' '145.65' 'order_type' 'limit' 'qty' '13' 'replaced_at' None 'replaced_by' None 'replaces' None 'side' 'buy' 'status' 'new' 'stop_price' None 'submitted_at' ' 2019-10-04 T 18:49:04 .635271258Z' 'symbol' 'TLT' 'time_in_force' 'day' 'type' 'limit' 'updated_at' ' 2019-10-04 T 18:49:04 .662862495Z' This is just one example of how to write an algorithm that trades multiple stocks concurrently. There are other frameworks such as , but it's up to you and your preferences. pylivetrader Technology and services are offered by AlpacaDB, Inc. Brokerage services are provided by Alpaca Securities LLC ( alpaca.markets ), member FINRA/SIPC. Alpaca Securities LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. Tweet us @AlpacaHQ

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