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Lending Club Discussion => Investors - LC => Topic started by: WES on July 27, 2013, 11:00:00 PM

Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: WES on July 27, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
Is there any way to shorten the number of clicks required to complete an order? I count a minimum of 4: add to order, view order, continue, place order. And that's for just one note in an order.

This is making it difficult to compete with the institutional computers. What am I missing?

Thanks,
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: rawraw on July 27, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
Doesn't it only take one to reserve the spot, though?
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: Fred on July 27, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
from: WES on July 28, 2013, 05:16:47 PM
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: kbenson99 on July 27, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
If you have decent technical experience, it is simple enough to write a script that emulates a browser session to filter notes and auto-invest.  The python scripting language is a good choice.
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: TravelingPennies on July 28, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
I don't want to use a subscription service, and scripting a browser won't work since the filter options don't screen for some of the things for which I manually select. For example, I don't lend to certain occupations, employers, etc.

BTW: I've been investing w LC since 2011 and with Prosper since 2007 (no defaults at all under the old model, ROI around 8%). But the recent influx of computer trading is screwing my access to the  notes I want. My self-computed ROI (XIRR) is 12%, total notes funded about 2900, defaults total 23.

Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: neals384 on July 28, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
Requiring lenders to verify their order with an extra click is a good idea, as pointed out by Fred.  But there's another reason - 1-Click ordering is patented by Amazon.  A design that allows a lender to view a listing and then invest with a single click might infringe on the patent. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: TravelingPennies on July 28, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
The filtering of notes can be easily accomplished by having a script download the current available listing, https://www.lendingclub.com/browse/browseNotesRawDataV6.action.  With this listing, the script can slice/dice however you please (eg, DTI > x% and < x%, employer != X, etc).  After you have a list of notes that meets your criteria, using a programmatic browser session (eg, python mechanize or splinter), you simply call the appropriate LC AJAX calls.  I'm not advocating a novice programmer write their own automation tool due to the fact that if you are not careful, you can completely hose up your portfolio.  Thus, I won't go into exact programming details because I don't want to be held accountable for someone else's programming flaws.  However, there are some publicly available examples on github.

Personally, I wrote my own note selection mechanism because I wanted complete control over the filtering criteria (I'm a bit of a control freak).  For the past 6 months, my note selection and order submission has been completely automated.  Prior to the automation, I had to periodically login to check my available cash and then tediously find the notes and submit by hand.  So far, I'm happy with the results (XIRR is 13.5%).   :)
Title: Four clicks required to invest?
Post by: ThinleyWangchuk on July 31, 2013, 11:00:00 PM
from: rawraw on July 28, 2013, 05:35:31 PM