Checks a list of stocks to see if the price has declined a certain percentage from its maximum price over a specified number of days.
The goal is to identify primarily index ETFs that have declined substantially in price from their maximum values over the past few weeks or months, which could potentially signal a buying opportunity.
- argparse
- matplotlib - used to pull the stock quote data from Yahoo! Finance
You can install them with pip:
pip install argparse
pip install matplotlib
Or you can install them using pip and the requirements.txt file:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Show help menu:
python stock-price-decline-checker.py -h
usage: stock-price-decline-checker.py [-h] [-s SYMBOLS] [-p PERCENT] [-d DAYS]
[-v]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s SYMBOLS, --symbols SYMBOLS
Comma separate list of symbols. Example: SPY,QQQ
-p PERCENT, --percent PERCENT
Percent change. Example: 5
-d DAYS, --days DAYS Number of days. Example: 50
-v, --verbose Increase output verbosity
Run the decline checker against some index ETFs:
python stock-price-decline-checker.py -s QQQ,SPY,DIA -d 50 -p 5 -v
Example output:
Symbols: ['QQQ', 'SPY', 'DIA'] Percent: 5.0 Days: 50 Verbose: True Checking for a 5.0% decline over the past 50 days Index stock: QQQ - max value over 50 days: 83.06 - most recent close: 82.81 - percent change: -0.3% Index stock: SPY - max value over 50 days: 177.17 - most recent close: 176.21 - percent change: -0.54% Index stock: DIA - max value over 50 days: 156.5 - most recent close: 155.86 - percent change: -0.41%
The stock price decline checker will display an alert if the stock has dropped in price greater than the percentage specified:
python stock-price-decline-checker.py -s GOOG,FB -d 50 -p 7.5
Note how FB has now triggered an alert since it has fallen over 7.5%:
Checking for a 7.5% decline over the past 50 days Index stock: GOOG - max value over 50 days: 1036.24 - most recent close: 1027.04 - percent change: -0.89% Index stock: FB - max value over 50 days: 54.22 - most recent close: 49.75 - percent change: -8.24% ALERT! FB has dropped -8.24% over the last 50 days