Jeff's TradeBot

Here is an awesome trade bot that sends trading signals to your email. The project started from a version of TradeBot I forked from theryanle/stock-tradingbot on GitHub. It uses MACD and RSI indicators to provide buy/sell/hold signals for trading of stocks.

My changes and enhancements include:

1. Adding functionally to allow signals of multiple ticker symbols.
2. Changing output from SMS messages via Twillo to emails.
3. Providing an altered method of retrieving stock data.
4. Adding a feaure to prevent output on a non-trading day.
5. Added a log file for the output to facilitate back-testing of the signals.

I may add a graphic interface and allow multiple accounts so different stock ticker lists can be stored in a database and relevant output can be sent to different emails. The intended usage of this program is to execute a compiled version daily from a scheduler such as Windows Task Scheduler.

Jeff Willits jnwillits.com

Setup

1. Update the bot.py file with your email(s) and stock ticker symbols.

   tickers = ['ICE', 'CBSH', 'JNJ', 'SO', 'NVDA', 'ARKF']
   to_email = """ your_email_1@gmail.com;
                  your_email_2@gmail.com """ 

2. Compile the bot.py file into an executible file. You can pip install PyInstaller and use the command:

   pyinstaller bot.py --onefile

If you have problems with this, the easiest solution can be to find pyinstaller.exe on your drive
and place a copy in the same folder as the program files. Otherwise, it is not essential to run 
this from a compiled file. You can run the script from python as:

   python bot.py

3. Use a scheduler, such as Windows Task Scheduler to run bot.ext daily. There can be issues with file paths when using the scheduler. I solved this by running botbatch.bat instead of bot.exe from the scheduler. Before running the executable, the working directory is changed to the folder where the program data files reside. My file "botbatch.bat" is included with the files, but you will need to revise the path command. If you leave your computer in sleep mode, be sure to set the scheduler to wake the computer to run the task.

Requirements

+Python 3.7 and above

Installation

Install the dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

  $ python bot.py

Having trouble with the email not generating? From PowerShell:

Remove-Item -path $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Temp\gen_py -recurse

I run this from a batch file and added this command to botbatch.bat. When running this command in a batch file from the Windows Task Scheduler, be sure to configure the Scheduler for Windows 10, instead of an earlier version and have Powershell as the default command prompt.