Only about 1/4 of my projects ever make it to any sort of announcement or release. Usually, those releases are silent through svn somewhere. However, I’ve finally reached the time to take a look at the stock market, and have figured, naturally, my best bet is with tech stocks.

In any case, I thought tonight would be a good chance to share one of those many projects that never see foreign eyes. I thereby present you with my custom spin on what a tech stock tracker should look like. I’m not trading minute to minute, or hour to hour, so I don’t care about real-time stock quotes. What I do care about are new announcements that may tip a stock one way or the other, or stocks that look like they may be headed towards rapid change.

Right now, you’re looking a few hours in python, on a 10 minute cron. It grabs information, parses it, and generates static html. I have plans yet to continue to improve this project. More specifically, I’d like to delve deeper into the news articles, counting keywords that may indicate the direction a stock is about to head. I also planning on grabbing historical stock information and running some regression stats in an attempt to automate finding what stocks are very closely related to one another. If stocks A, B and C are all closely related, and news indicates good things for A and B, good things are most likely in store for C.