A hackathon project where Alexa has a hand in picking stocks and making recommendations This project uses the Quantopia API and Markit On Demand for it's stock market data.

This backend is written in Flask and hosted on Heroku, here is the planned documentation for the API routes so Alexa can communicate with the Market.

PyStockPicker takes the general stocks and then we run a second layer of a Market Moving Average (Tactical Stock Analysis)

For the stocks of interest we run

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This Backend is able to retrive Stock prices for a particular stock Be able to recommend the best US based stock based off of some factors Be able to recommend the highest performing stock based off of purchase velocity Be able to buy/sell using Alexa as the interface

The root url is localhost:8080/Api/v0

URL

• /Quote

  Method: GET

• URL Params

  Field: Symbol Type: String <- Ticker Symbol

Optional Params

/TopStock

with optional Fields
(Tech, Resources)

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content:

    {
    "Name":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice":524.49,
    "Change":15.6,
    "ChangePercent":3.06549549018453,
    "Timestamp":"Wed Oct 23 13:39:19 UTC-06:00 2013",
    "High":52499,
    "Low":519.175,
    "Open":519.175 
    }
    

• Error Response:

  <Most endpoints will have many ways they can fail. From unauthorized access, to wrongful parameters etc. All of those should be liste d here. It might seem repetitive, but it helps prevent assumptions from being made where they should be.>

  • Code: 404 NOT FOUND
    Content: { error : "Ticker Not Found" }

Returns the top five suggested

URL

• /Quote

  Method: GET

• URL Params

  Field: Symbol Type: String <- Ticker Symbol

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content:

    {
    "one":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol-one":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice-one":524.49,
    "two":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol-two":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice-two":524.49,
    "three":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol-three":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice-three":524.49,
    "four":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol-four":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice-four":524.49,
    "five":"Apple Inc",
    "Symbol-five":"AAPL",
    "LastPrice-five":524.49,
    }
    

• Error Response:

  <Most endpoints will have many ways they can fail. From unauthorized access, to wrongful parameters etc. All of those should be liste d here. It might seem repetitive, but it helps prevent assumptions from being made where they should be.>

  • Code: 500 SERIVE DOWN
    Content: { error : "No connection" }