As a trader, it’s important to be aware of news events that can induce extreme volatility in the markets. After forgetting and being caught off guard one too many times, I decided to create this solution.
A simple web-scraper that fetches high-impact economic news events from tradingeconomics.com and adds them to a Google calendar so I can leverage push notifications to my phone.
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Architecture
The tradingeconomics.com website is scraped daily for news events. While all events are saved, only certain ones (level II ‘high impact’) are actually added to the calendar.
Infrastructure
Data Storage: CSV
Scheduling: cron
Push Notifications: Google Calendar
Python Libraries: BeautifulSoup4 and pandas
Screenshot of calendar in use:
