A Python desktop application that pulls data from Yahoo Finance (through Yahoo Query Language (YQL)). Data is stored in a database (new data overwrites the old) and is displayed in a window via PyQt.

Please make sure that these are installed:

• Python 2.7.x
• Python virtualenv

• alembic
• requests

1. Download and unzip the files into a folder.

2. Ensure that pip is installed. For Windows users, see here for instructions.

   • If you will have multiple versions of Python, check out how to install and configure and how to use pip with another version of Python.

3. Ensure that the virtualenv module for Python is installed. Type pip freeze into terminal and check if virtualenv is listed.

   • If it is, update it to the most recent version by typing sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv.
   • If not, simply type into terminal sudo pip install virtualenv for Linux and OSX users, or pip install virtualenv for Windows users, pip2.7 install virtualenv if you have multiple versions.

4. Create a virtual environment. Type into terminal virtualenv venv without the brackets, virtualenv --python=[path/to/python/python.exe] venv if you have multiple versions.

5. Activate the virtual environment. For Linux users, type into terminal . venv/bin/activate. For Windows users, type venv\Scripts\activate.

6. Retrieve all the requirements. Run pip install -e . to automatically install the needed dependencies.

7. Install PySide GUI. Run pip install --use-wheel -U pyside.

8. Initialize alembic. Run alembic init alembic to initialize alembic.

9. Create the database. Run python db_create.py to create your database with the name specified in config.py.

10. Start the server. Run python run.py and enjoy.

If you change your database name, change sqlalchemy.url in alembic.ini to point to your database.