A real-time financial dashboard built for hackathon focusing on stock volatility analysis and risk management.
- Real-time stock data analysis
- Volatility tracking and prediction
- Portfolio risk assessment
- Market sentiment analysis
- Simple, clean UI with powerful backend
- FastAPI - Modern, fast web framework
- Pandas & NumPy - Data manipulation
- yfinance - Free stock data
- SQLite - Lightweight database
- scikit-learn - ML for predictions
- Streamlit - Quick dashboard (recommended for hackathon)
- React + Tailwind - More customizable
- Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt- Run the backend:
uvicorn main:app --reload- Run Streamlit dashboard:
streamlit run dashboard.py- Basic FastAPI backend
- Stock data fetching with yfinance
- Simple volatility calculations
- Basic Streamlit dashboard
- Real-time volatility tracking
- Technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands)
- Portfolio risk metrics (VaR, Sharpe ratio)
- Data visualization with Plotly
- Error handling and logging
- Performance optimization
- Deployment preparation
- Documentation and demo
- AdminLTE - https://adminlte.io/ (Bootstrap-based)
- Tabler - https://tabler.io/ (Modern, clean)
- Volt Dashboard - https://demo.themesberg.com/volt-react-dashboard/
- Material Dashboard - https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-dashboard
- TradingView - Professional charts
- Yahoo Finance - Clean, simple layout
- Robinhood - Mobile-first design
- Bloomberg Terminal - Data-dense (avoid for hackathon)
- Focus on 2-3 core features
- Use pre-built components
- Prioritize functionality over aesthetics
- Start with mock data, add real data later
- Robust API design
- Error handling
- Data validation
- Performance optimization
- Have a clear story
- Show real-time data
- Demonstrate one "wow" feature
- Prepare backup demo if live data fails
GET /api/stocks/{symbol} - Get stock data
GET /api/volatility/{symbol} - Calculate volatility
GET /api/portfolio/risk - Portfolio risk analysis
GET /api/market/sentiment - Market sentiment
POST /api/alerts - Set volatility alerts
- Historical Volatility - Standard deviation of returns
- Implied Volatility - From options data (if available)
- Realized Volatility - Rolling window calculations
- Volatility of Volatility - VVIX-like metric
- Real-time data updates
- Accurate volatility calculations
- Responsive dashboard
- Clean, professional UI
- Working demo with live data 🚀
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python test_api.py
python start.py