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EA UX: Distinguishing between stock and crypto EAs

Open aalu1418 opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

Interesting issue of distinguishing between crypto price EAs and stock price EAs.

Came to light when testing the Intrinio adapter and requesting BTC prices which errored out. However testing ETH and LINK worked completely fine. Turns out that ETH as a stock ticker is a US furniture company, and LINK is an electronic sensor company.

At a testing level, not a big issue. But if this occurred in production, the impact could be catastrophic with mixing crypto and stock prices with vastly different numbers. (stock ETH: 30.29 vs crypto ETH: 3,487.97)

How to avoid mixing EAs by accident, or some way to be informed about what kind of information the EA is meant to return?

aalu1418 avatar May 04 '21 14:05 aalu1418