Stock Visualizer

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Description

Welcome to the Stock Visualizer, which presents the following features :

1. Back End (Python)

   • Web scraping on Yahoo Finance to retrieve most active or most gaining stocks
   • Sort stocks based on chosen criteria and retrieve top 5 stocks
   • Call API of selected stocks to retreive data in JSON format (time, open/close price, high/low, volume)
   • Cleanse the JSON data to a more readable format and visualize the time series data

2. Front End (Dart/Flutter)

   • Build app with 5 tabs for each of the 5 stocks
   • Each tab displays the following :
     • Symbol of stock (e.g. AAPL)
     • Displays the plot generated by Python
     • Estimated profit/loss since start of app runtime
     • Button that links to Yahoo Finance info on the specified stock

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Compile/Run

1. Download folder and move directory to downloaded path
2. Check the following on main.py
   • Switch between finance.yahoo.com/gainers and finance.yahoo.com/most-active based on need
   • Get your keycode at alphavantage.co and input keycode to retrieve stock API
   • Feel free to switch the path for where the image and JSON file will be created
3. Check the following on dart_folder
   • Check that pubspec.yaml is accessing assets from the correct path
   • Check that main.dart is accessing JSON and image files from the correct path
4. On terminal, change directory to py_folder and run 'python main.py'
5. Wait for images, JSON file to be generated
6. Turn on iOS or Android simulator
7. On terminal, change directory to dart_folder and run 'flutter run'
8. Run 'flutter clean' and delete pycache file after finishing app

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Images