We were inspired to develop this project by the difference in informational power between hedge funds and individual investors.
The project aims to provide its users with sentimental information on stocks in the form of a website, as well as show graphs and data on how the company and its stocks are doing and provide the user with investing strategies. All of this helps the user gain insight into the stock market.
Our project uses reddit API and python to collect data from certain subreddit posts(mentions and sentiment) and also yahoo finance API for data about companies(names, tickers, market caps, day lows, day highs and so on). It utilises django, postgresql, matplotlib, css, html5 and javascript to display all of the data on a local website. The website also includes information on investing strategies and how they work.
Challenges we ran into were reformatting databases for them to be useful in our project, scraping information correctly, making the website look at least decent, determining how to get the tickers.
We are proud we were able to integrate so many technologies together and make the project work, as well as make the website look ok.
We learned how to take data from python and display it on a website, put a website together, use reddit API for scraping posts and use yahoo finance API to get information about companies.
Presenting more important data of each stock, adding more information on ways of investing (strategies), as well as guides that cover the details of the stock market would be our next priority.
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