Automating your Stocks Portfolio’s Daily Analysis Report using Python
We live in times when almost everything is automated. People no longer have to do the basic stuff which could be easily done by computers. For example, anyone could write a script to send them reports on their current stocks portfolio status or even suggestions for good stocks to buy.
“I predict that, because of artificial intelligence and its ability to automate certain tasks that in the past were impossible to automate, not only will we have a much wealthier civilization, but the quality of work will go up very significantly and a higher fraction of people will have callings and careers relative to today.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
This article demonstrates a simple Python script for automating a daily stock portfolio report. It will be generating a report about your portfolio and emailing it to you. The report will contain information like todays return and top movers.
Automating your Stocks Portfolio Report
We are going to be using Python 3.8 for this guide. For anyone who has little to no experience I recommend reading this article for a quick step by step tutorial on installing it.
