====== Stock analysis ======

  * I don't really do stock analysis
  * Also I'm not a professional trader
  * I'm a senior software developer
  * Don't take any of this advice to invest in stocks.
  * Second, Interactive Brokers is terrible for anything beyond placing a trade
  * their data feeds are sourced from third parties.
  * Which you can just go to their third party and get the data directly
  * in a better format
  * If you are determined to use interactive brokers
  * learn software development and check out my video on writing code for interactive brokers.
  * It's not worth the time or effort to use their software to do analysis
  * Their data is available else where and is more easily accessible than through interactive brokers.
  * So, If you are still watching,
  * I'm going to walk through how I would analyze a stock
  * and perform calculations on the historical data
  * If I were to analyze stocks
  * this is the process I would use
  * First, I follow the news every day
  * multiple sources of news
  * I also follow what startup companies investors are investing in
  * This gives me an idea of what specific markets to invest in
  * right now, commodities are going up in price.
  * oil may be going down if biden starts dumping the US oil reserve onto the market.
  * The housing market just reached it's peak and is going into a downturn
  * With this news, I can start looking into specific stocks that capture these prices
  * so I search for housing stock market index for example
  * Then take this stock for example and look at it's details
  * well it looks like it's on a down trend
  * which the housing market is on the down trend
  * probably wont go back up until march of next year
  * but this stock seems to have a lot of ups and downs
  * so maybe it's good for day trading
  * we can get the data and put it in excel
  * this will allow us to run algorithms on it
  * But do I really need excel to do this?
  * What about trading view?
  * So I would waste time looking at trading view before writing my own algorithms
  * See if I can spot patterns with existing algorithms
  * Once I've done that
  * I would then work on creating some code in excel to trigger off those patterns
  * then I can run a back test on the algorithm and see how well it works
  * Once you have it setup
  * just open excel once an hour, once a day
  * however often
  * and see if your algorithm triggered for the given stock you are following
  * If you want real automation
  * Use trading view and pine script
  * Trading view can alert your phone
  * or lead programming and fully automate so you don't even have to worry about it.
  * anyway, that's all I have.