Automated Stock Updates Using Python

Levi Long
Levi Long
Sep 2, 2018 · 11 min read

At the end of this article you will have created (or at least learned how to create) a personalized Python process that sends an email to you daily at a specified time giving updates on stocks you would like to follow. The amount of detail you would like on the stocks you follow is up to you to develop with the free IEX stock exchange API. As to why I chose the IEX API, well honestly because it was the first one I came across and it does the job quite well.

For the purpose of this process you’ll retrieve the stock symbol, stock name, exchange the stock belongs to, as…

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