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For an investor making investment decisions based on the underlying fundamentals of a company, i.e. fundamental analysis, finding companies to buy can be a daunting task. With ~3,600 publically listed companies in the United States…
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In a previous post, I wrote about an API I have created to retrieve data for stocks belonging to the Russell 2000 and S&P 500 indexes. One glaringly obvious issue with the data-gathering techniques discussed…
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NOTE: because I live in Montana (and was too lazy to deal with time zones) the data stored in this database (therefore, the dates and times passed to the API endpoints) are recorded in Mountain…
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In a recent post, I wrote about using Monte Carlo simulations to determine the likelihood of a stock option being profitable by generating multiple paths using Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) and computing some statistics of…
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Examples abound of multiple different ways to retrieve historical stock data in Python using many different sources. I have personally written about an API I created which downloads the data from Yahoo Finance and have…
Disclaimer: This project/post is for fun/education please don’t use the results of this project to make investment decisions. If you chose to ignore this disclaimer and do just that I am not responsible for the (very…
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What is Time Series Forecasting? A time series is a collection of observations made sequentially through time, e.g. the value of a company’s stock. Time series forecasting is the practice of making predictions based on…
Disclaimer: This post is for entertainment/educational purposes only. The content of this post is not meant to provide investment advice or to help with investment decision making. QUICK-NAV:– MACD– Implementation– Full Code Moving Average Convergence…
Disclaimer: This project/post is for fun/education please don’t use the results of this project to make investment decisions. If you chose to ignore this disclaimer and do just that I am not responsible for the…
Retrieving historical stock data for analysis can be somewhat of a task. Many APIs that provide this information require some type of membership, account, or even fee before you have access to the data. Fortunately,…
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