Build a Stock Market Analysis & Alert System: Day 2 - Technical Analysis & Price Alerts
Level: Intermediate
Projects in this week’s series:
This week, we progressively build a stock market analysis and alert system with Python.
Day 1: Stock Price Tracker
Day 2: Technical Analysis & Price Alerts (Today)
Day 3: Automated Email Reports
Today’s Project
Yesterday we built a stock price tracker that fetches real-time data. Today we’re adding technical analysis and intelligent alerts — calculate indicators like RSI and Moving Averages, set price targets, and get notifications when stocks hit your desired levels.
We’re transforming your tracker into a smart monitoring system that watches the market for you and alerts you when opportunities arise!
Project Task
Create a technical analysis and alert system that:
Calculates technical indicators (RSI, SMA, EMA, MACD)
Detects buy/sell signals based on indicators
Allows users to set price alert targets
Sends email notifications when alerts trigger
Shows overbought/oversold conditions (RSI)
Displays trend analysis (moving averages)
Provides actionable trading signals
This project gives you hands-on practice with technical analysis, mathematical indicators, alert systems, email automation, and building intelligent monitoring tools — essential skills for algorithmic trading and market analysis!
Expected Output
When the program runs, it will ask the user to enter the ticker stock symbol they want to get email notifications for. Here the user enters “AAPL” for Apple stock:
The program displays the current price and also asks the user to enter the target price (e.g., 273.35):
When that price is reached, the program will trigger a price alert and send an email to the user. Here is the actual email I received for this particular example of Apple stock:
This is highly customizable and you can create a free PythonAnywhere account and add the script to be executed as a task - it just takes 5 minutes to set up.
Coming Tomorrow
Tomorrow we’re building automated email reports — get daily market summaries, portfolio updates, and top movers delivered straight to your inbox with professional HTML formatting and embedded charts!
View Code Evolution
Compare today’s solution with earlier versions and see how we’re building a complete stock analysis system.
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