Doug Bromley has posted a scRubyt tutorial on how to parse Yahoo! stock data for the FTSE 100 index.
If you enjoyed my FSX Trader post/gem, check it out here .
Another neat library I discovered while tinkering with FSX is YahooFinance which can be used to get just about any stock data imaginable via a Yahoo! Finance CSV “api” of sorts.
Mini automated hedge fund, anyone?
With all these free services floating around and APIs available into them, it wouldn’t take much to put together an application that allowed individuals to put together a kind of mini automated trading hedge fund.
Professional traders I’ve spoken to about this have said that automated systems should be used to alert one to trading opportunities / possibilities, but not necessarily executing trades automatically (sans human intervention).
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