Price tracking and analysis of the DNMs

Hey I'm interested in tracking the price of MDMA and LSD over the markets and creating some sort of statistical analysis to compare them to currency exchange rates and the price of bitcoin. Does anyone know if this has been done before? Also is there some sort of API or system that I could use to automatically collect prices from the market at specific time intervals or would this be something I would have to record manually every time? I would think there would be a way to automatically collect price data from the big vendors by using grams or something.


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[2 Points] None:

I'd be pretty down to help you with that bro. Sounds like a fun project. Could use PHP


[1 Points] FreddieGetsFingered:

Somebody once did this with the lsd game maybe other drugs can't remember.


[1 Points] ShitQuantikSays:

What software would you use to run the data?


[1 Points] Theeconomist1:

I was talking to someone maybe a year or two ago who wanted to do something similar. He did release it I think and announced it on the sub, fuck, I can't remember his username so can't call him. I didn't have time then, but given my background, there is a lot of cool things that could be done with something like this.

The idea was to build tools that vendors could use to help monitor pricing. Also you could be predictive tools too to help determine not only how to price, but also when to hold stock, when to price to sell, when to see if there is a glut, etc. I've been thinking of revisiting this concept actually.


[1 Points] LowerHaighter:

You may want to look into OnionScan and build from there. (at least for data gathering tools).

You could also replicate/iterate the methods that Gwern used for the DNM Archive.