05-24-2016, 12:33 AM
(05-23-2016, 02:36 PM)joshdude58 Wrote: I have very little experience with these kinds of machines, so I am not sure what is/isn't possible. I do think it would be cool if it's possible to leave a pine running from market hours (9:30-4), and have it running a program that either runs through all stocks, or a list, and screens them for certain preferences. Once it finds one that matches your criteria, it would be cool to have it send you a text or maybe add to a list that you could view from your phone. I know there are applications and websites out there to do this, but I think this would be a fun project to do and also utilize my Pine! Any thoughts? Thanks!
Hi,
Simple answer yes, but to do it for free is a little more difficult, and the complexity of the "screens them for certain preferences", would need to be constrained to the power of the Pine64 and the amount of storage.
The markets sell the price data to the financial services industry, so depending on how close to market you would like to be you may have to pay for the privilege. You can use site's like The London Stock Exchange but they are a little while behind the market. For the SMS again there are free sites, but you'll need to read the T's & C's many don't allow free programmatic access.
As for the coding, if it's simple "if price moved by X", I'd personally pick one of the Linux OS's and you could even write the processing in shell, but a lot of Data Science coding is done in Python now days. If you want to get more complex than that then I would suggest another platform...