Send cryptocurrency price alerts directly to your email address using Python
In this article, I will show you how to create your very own crypto currency price alerter using the python programming language. According to Wikipedia, crypto currencies are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange wherein individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger existing in a form of computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, to control the creation of additional coins, and to verify the transfer of coin ownership.
The idea of the price alerter is to send an email directly to a specific email address (your email address) after the price of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin passes some price threshold like $30,000 USD. With this information you can then decide if you want to buy or sell the crypto. …
Stock Trading Strategy Using On-Balance Volume (OBV) & Python
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In this article you will learn a simple trading strategy used to predict price movements using the Python programming language. More specifically you will learn how to perform algorithmic trading. It is extremely hard to try and predict the stock market momentum direction, but in this article I will give it a try. …
Send Emails Using Python
In this article, I will show you how to send emails using the python programming language. I will be using a GMail account for this as well as Googles outgoing mail server. Before you get started, if you are using a GMail account, then you will need to set up less secure app access. This is not recommended to do by Google, so be sure to do this at your own risk.
Set Up Less Secure Apps
Using The Python Programming Language
Disclaimer: The material in this article is purely educational and should not be taken as professional investment advice. Invest at your own discretion.
What Are Stock Market Technical Indicators ?
Stock market technical indicators are signals used to interpret stock or financial data trends to attempt to predict future price movements within the market. Stock indicators help investors to make trading decisions.
Types of Technical Indicators
Simple Moving Average (SMA): A simple moving average is a technical trend indicator that can aid in determining if an asset price will continue or if it will reverse a bull or bear trend. A simple moving average can be enhanced as an exponential moving average (EMA) that is more heavily weighted on recent price action. …
Web scraping to get the price of various cryptocurrencies
Note: This article is for entertainment and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial advice.
In this article, I will show you how to get the price of cryptocurrencies in real time using the Python programming language. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Etherium are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange on a widely distributed database that doesn’t belong to one specific person or company.
There are many free available APIs on the web that you can use as an alternative to scraping the web to get the price of cryptocurrencies, but we won’t be using any of those free APIs in this article. …
Algorithmic Trading Using the DEMA indicator
Disclaimer: The material in this article is purely educational and should not be taken as professional investment advice. Invest at your own discretion.
The Double Exponential Moving Average or DEMA for short is a technical indicator that uses two exponential moving averages (EMA) to get rid of lag. It was brought to light in an article by Patrick Mulloy called “Smoothing Data With Faster Moving Averages”.
How To Calculate DEMA ?
To Calculate DEMA, you can use a simple formula. The formula Gets the Exponential Moving Average for N-look back periods, let’s call this EMA1. …
Build a fake /real news data set !
In this article, I will show you how to create your very own data set that contains false/fake and true/real news by scraping a political website called PolitiFact.com using python ! You can later use this data set for other projects like creating models to detect fake news.
Fake news is information that is untrue represented as news. Many times it is used and created to damage the reputation of a person or entity, or to make money. It would be nice to be able to detect fake news using a simple model, but before that can happen, I need data to train my model on, hence this article. …
What are the top 5 highest paying programming languages ?
Becoming a developer and learning different programming languages can be a lucrative profession. Most developer jobs pay well, but I want to focus on the programming languages that pays developers exceptionally well, so in this article I will be naming what I believe to be the top 5 highest paying programming languages that you should learn if you are interested in obtaining a high paying job.
Mind you the 5 programming languages that I am listing are my opinion based off of some facts through research and personal experiences. …
Using The Python Programming Language
Have you ever wanted to take a PDF file that you were reading and simply give it to some program and have that program read the contents of the PDF file to you ? Well, if you are like me and you wanted a program like this, then you are in luck because in this article, I will attempt to convert a PDF file to an audio book using the python programming language.
So, exactly what is a PDF file ? Well PDF stands for Portable Document Format and it is a file format developed by Adobe. It was used to present documents (text & images) that could not be modified but still easily shared and printed. …
Scrape the web using Python
As with most interesting projects, this one started with a simple question: where can I get all of the stock symbols and company names for my portfolio? Well, the obvious answer was to gather the data myself from the web !
This brings us to this article where I will show you how to gather stock symbols/tickers and their associated company names from the web.
Understanding The Thought Process Before Programming
First, I need to find a website that contains the data I want. A website that has some of the data I want to scrape is:(https://www.advfn.com/nyse/newyorkstockexchange.asp?companies=A)
This site seems like it would have a good amount of stock symbols/tickers and the associated company name. But looking at the website, I can see that it is missing some data from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but that’s okay as this is just a small project and it doesn’t need to be perfect and contain every single stock from the stock exchange. …
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