Automate your stock screening using Python
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Doesn’t it feel great to wake up every morning with a list of stock recommendations emailed to you? Doesn’t it feel even better if you could make that happen by yourself? Here’s how you can do it!
In my previous article, I mentioned how to build a simple technical analysis stock screener. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to use the stock screener to search for stocks that fit your trading strategies every day, automatically. This is the structure of the article:
- Define a trading strategy
- Perform screening
- Automate the process
Part 1: Define a trading strategy
In this tutorial, I am just going to go for a simple EMA (exponential moving average) bounce strategy. As the name suggests, we try to find a bounce on an EMA trend line, for example, the 50-day EMA.
As indicated by the above image, our goal here is to hunt for stocks that meet the following requirements after the market closes:
- Overall trend is…
