MonkeyStock

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Inspiration

MonkeyStock was inspired by the titular primate, "Monkey," and the popular company ownership mode of trading, "Stock."

What it does

MonkeyStock creates a model from Twitter users' sentiment about stocks and then interprets information from the model to buy and sell stocks.

How we built it

To build MonkeyStock, we first set up a Live Share session in Visual Studio Code so we could have a live, collaborative environment to add files and code to. We researched the necessary packages and tools for creating a model based on Twitter users' sentiments and then became monkeys. The rest is self-explanatory.

Challenges we ran into

1. Stringifying the data during data preprocessing
2. Getting the stock list just as symbols through the IEX website
3. Scraping tweets and storing them as .csv files compatible with the developed training model

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1. Successfully implementing the aforementioned challenges we ran into

What we learned

Monkeys are incredibly proficient at trading stocks. Humans are incredibly inefficient at writing code.

What's next for MonkeyStock

Next, we will integrate real-life monkeys that buy and sell stock. Apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas will also be accepted. We are a non-discriminatory organization.

Built With

• alpaca
• iex
• jupyter
• nltk
• python
• tweepy
• vscode