StocksWaybackMachine

A program to dig into stocks history to find out how much money you'd have today if you invested some money

Tools used

• API: IEX Cloud for stocks data https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/
• Json to manage API data
• Requests to call API

TO DO

1. Query the stock list based on user input (test exact date first then approximative to avoid weekends)
2. Validate user inputs before querying (stock, dates, amount) --> Done
3. Build a chart
4. empty list: https://sandbox.iexapis.com/stable/stock/appl/chart/date/20190220?chartByDay=true&token=Tsk_b353e1b5a6dc48d18b7d316ece6c8472
5. Deals with some empty results:

• empty result: today's value https://sandbox.iexapis.com/stable/stock/twtr/ohlc?token=Tsk_b353e1b5a6dc48d18b7d316ece6c8472
• empty result when date on weekend. i.e: GOOG - 20150315/14 - 1000 --> list index out of range ()

6. Calculate losses