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Andrew Dinh a8b7b794ec Added options to restart program and plot indicator linear regression

Added link to the essay that was the basis of this project

2019-04-15 23:08:01 -07:00

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fund-indicators

fund-indicators is a cross-platform Python application that allows users to easily find relationships between various attributes of mutual funds and previous performance. This project is based on research from Performance Indicators of Mutual Funds.

Key Features

100% automated
Uses multiple API's in the case another fails
Caches http requests for future runs
Scrapes data from Yahoo Finance
Color-coded for easy viewing
Optional graphs to easily visualize linear regression results
A new joke every time
Cross-platform (tested on Windows and Linux)
Simple to use

Quickstart

Give it a try at repl.run or repl.it.

If you would like to clone to your own machine:

git clone https://github.com/andrewkdinh/fund-indicators.git && cd fund-indicators
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Common mutual funds are listed in stocks.txt
Configure and rename config.example.json to config.json if you would like to skip beginning questions (only for advanced users)

Planned Features

Graphical user interface (GUI)
Multithreading/asynchronous requests

Contributing

Want to help? Great! Check out the CONTRIBUTING.md file!

Credits

This project utilizes a wide variety of open-source projects:

NumPy, Termcolor, Beautiful Soup, yahoofinancials, requests-cache, halo, matplotlib, asciinema, Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge

And thank you to those that have helped me with the idea and product:

Amber Bruce, Alex Stoykov, Doug Achterman, Stack Overflow

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