With my life getting busier and busier, adding another item to the daily morning routine, no matter how short in the amount of time it takes, is to be avoided. So as I have been observing the recent increases in the stock market and deciding that I should be paying attention more, I have been pondering about how I might do this in a more automated fashion.
Consequently, I decided to write a simple Python program that pulls some daily stock market information (e.g., today's opening, yearly high, yearly low), runs some calculations (e.g., opening / yearly high), and then after some simple conditional logic, tells me whether I should buy. This code runs on a daily schedule and opens up in a pop-up window automatically.
It is rather simplistic, but a quick glance at this every day is a simple way to keep an eye on the market and to be informed of action I should take in response.
The code is posted to GitHub if you are interested.