stocks-analyst-project

The stocks analyst project is deployed on heroku and you can check it out here: stocks analyst

What is stock analyst?

• Real time analysis of stock index values
• Interactive charts for easy understanding of stock prices
• Availability of historical end of day datasets
• Foreign Exchange Rates for about 30 different currencies
• A chloropleth world map used to map global index values of over 30 different countries

Web crawler

• Crawling: http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/stockresearch/globalmarkets/intIndices.asp to get updated global stock index values
• Using cherio js as a server side framework for web crawler
• “Table-scraper” library is used to scrape all the tables from the webpage and convert them to javascript objects

Highcharts

• Use of Highcharts to visualize data and plotting them on interactive charts
• User can alter the span and range of data being rendered just by a single mouse click
• Live charts are used to render the data in real time
• Highmaps being used to render global stock indices using color codes

Additional Features

• Resposive UI using CSS media queries
• SEO optimization: achieved a SEO score of 77/100
• Localization: Website is also available is chinese and spanish
• Website enabled with G-zip compression for faster speeds
• Entire domain operates within “https” secure socket layer to maintain high security standards

Front - end

• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap
• jQuery

Server - side

• Node js
• Express js
• Cherio js

Important Stuff (Not really)

• I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMANGES - INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FINANCIAL LOSS THAT OCCURS WITH THE USE OF THIS APP
• This code is released under the WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want to Public License) license.

Screenshots

1] The homepage

2] The stock index chart

3] Realtime data plotting

4] The Global Stock Index Map

5] The Currency tracker

6] The Leader board

7] Localization

Few Screenshots of Responsive UI

• Screenshots taken on a cell-phone with 4.7 inch display

1] The homepage

2] The stock index chart

3] The Leader board

4] The Currency tracker

5] The Global Stock Index Map

Built With

• apacheconf
• css
• html
• javascript