README.md

stock market

Useful snippets of code for acquiring and analyzing stock market data.

ticker.py

Usage:

Put the stock market symbols as arguments for ticker.py in the command line.

$ python3.8 ticker.py BHG.ST AAPL GOOG EURUSD=X ^GDAXI 1810.HK

Sample Output:

Data Source:

Data queries will be made to https://finance.yahoo.com/.

history.py

What it does:

Fetches historical stock market data through yfinance (https://pypi.org/project/yfinance/) and plots them utilizing mplfinance (https://pypi.org/project/mplfinance/) including moving average and traded volume. Also saves a csv with the data in the same folder as the script.

Usage:

Edit variables in the file to your liking and simply run the script:

$ python3.8 history.py

Sample Output: