Finance, Balanced.

Navigating through the vast amount of financial data is tough for the non-institutional, retail, investor. Finance, Balanced. provides a scientifically-backed analysis to layperson.

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Inspiration

I don't know the first thing about investing, and by my understanding, neither does my dad, my neighbour, or my cat. However, institutional investors seem to know what's going on more often than not.

I want to create a platform that balances the access to financial knowledge for the average Joe / Josephine. This allows people to truly gain an understanding of what is going on in the market. We read articles like: "Amazon AWS to support 5g networks", and we're like "Cool!". However, what this means is that we can now look at the major network infrastructure companies and invest in a collection (etf) of them to maximise our gains. These are the kinds of insights I want to make available to everyone.

What it does

As of now, it takes in an entity and a "what if" scenario / article title. First, we output related news, using news api's Second, we run entity-based sentiment analysis on the what if / article title Thirdly, we display a network-like UI displaying how this scenario has affected the main entity's connections, these connections (i.e., main entity -> second entity) were curated using mathematical models, finding stock market correlations, and running webscrapers to find how many times the two entities were used in the same context, and then recording how positive or negative the context was.

How we built it

Python Flask API which called fine-tuned hugging face models, a lot of math and all news apis React Web Application with Graph/Network based UI features MongoDB for database storage

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works, and is quite insightful.

What's next for Finance, Balanced.

I stand by my original statement of making financial literacy ubiquitous. Right now, it's scattered in places, we don't have access to, so I want to get this access and share it with every person who earmarks X% of their salary.

In terms of technicalities, I don't know how to read financial reports. I want to create a subpage to allow you to do that and interpret it and compare a company's reports to others to get a feel for the market.

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