Stock Loss & Gain - Website and Scraper

You can enter any stock ticker, quantity, and price you purchased at. Web Scraper finds current price, then outputs the profit or loss.

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Inspiration

You can't check hypothetical stock gains on a stock broking platform like Fidelity or Robinhood, so if you want to pretend you bought AAPL shares at $5 and dream of your high profits you have to do it manually with a calculator and google.

What it does

You can enter the ticker (ex AAPL, MSFT) and the price/quantity you purchased it at. Then it prints the loss/gain and stores all your stocks in a table on the HTML website.

How we built it

There is a web scraper to get the current stock price and function to calculate stock market gains/losses in Python and an HTML website to hold the Python code with the appropriate text boxes, prompts, etc.

Challenges we ran into

  1. redirection issues -ran into a problem where we got redirected to a different website (Lukas) -had to learn how to use Flask on the fly (Rachel) ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Turning in a functional project before the deadline. It was ultimately very fun to participate in hackUMBC. ## What we learned Refresher on Python, HTML, CSS, learning how to use Flask, MySQL ## What's next for Stock Loss & Gain - Website and Scraper -possibly add a total portfolio value which simply adds up all the gains/losses of each individual stock
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