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Stock Volatility & Finance Dashboard 🚀

A real-time financial dashboard built for hackathon focusing on stock volatility analysis and risk management.

🎯 Project Goals (30-Hour Hackathon)

  • Real-time stock data analysis
  • Volatility tracking and prediction
  • Portfolio risk assessment
  • Market sentiment analysis
  • Simple, clean UI with powerful backend

🛠 Tech Stack

Backend

  • FastAPI - Modern, fast web framework
  • Pandas & NumPy - Data manipulation
  • yfinance - Free stock data
  • SQLite - Lightweight database
  • scikit-learn - ML for predictions

Frontend Options

  • Streamlit - Quick dashboard (recommended for hackathon)
  • React + Tailwind - More customizable

🚀 Quick Start

  1. Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Run the backend:
uvicorn main:app --reload
  1. Run Streamlit dashboard:
streamlit run dashboard.py

📊 Features to Implement

Phase 1 (Hours 1-10): Core Setup

  • Basic FastAPI backend
  • Stock data fetching with yfinance
  • Simple volatility calculations
  • Basic Streamlit dashboard

Phase 2 (Hours 11-20): Analysis Features

  • Real-time volatility tracking
  • Technical indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands)
  • Portfolio risk metrics (VaR, Sharpe ratio)
  • Data visualization with Plotly

Phase 3 (Hours 21-30): Polish & Deploy

  • Error handling and logging
  • Performance optimization
  • Deployment preparation
  • Documentation and demo

🎨 UI Templates & Inspiration

Free Dashboard Templates:

  1. AdminLTE - https://adminlte.io/ (Bootstrap-based)
  2. Tabler - https://tabler.io/ (Modern, clean)
  3. Volt Dashboard - https://demo.themesberg.com/volt-react-dashboard/
  4. Material Dashboard - https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-dashboard

Financial Dashboard Examples:

  1. TradingView - Professional charts
  2. Yahoo Finance - Clean, simple layout
  3. Robinhood - Mobile-first design
  4. Bloomberg Terminal - Data-dense (avoid for hackathon)

💡 Hackathon Tips

Keep It Simple:

  • Focus on 2-3 core features
  • Use pre-built components
  • Prioritize functionality over aesthetics
  • Start with mock data, add real data later

Backend Focus:

  • Robust API design
  • Error handling
  • Data validation
  • Performance optimization

Demo Preparation:

  • Have a clear story
  • Show real-time data
  • Demonstrate one "wow" feature
  • Prepare backup demo if live data fails

🔧 API Endpoints to Build

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

📈 Volatility Metrics to Include

  1. Historical Volatility - Standard deviation of returns
  2. Implied Volatility - From options data (if available)
  3. Realized Volatility - Rolling window calculations
  4. Volatility of Volatility - VVIX-like metric

🎯 Success Metrics

  • Real-time data updates
  • Accurate volatility calculations
  • Responsive dashboard
  • Clean, professional UI
  • Working demo with live data 🚀

Stocky

Setup (python or python3)

Set up environment

python -m venv venv

Activate environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Test the API (Terminal 1 / Just in case this is a test case)

python test_api.py

Start the application

python start.py

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