Stock data crawling

Onwards to day trading

As I expand the activities I participate in retirement, it became apparent to me that my meager $1000 income per month is not enough. Unfortunately, Zania will have to wait since stock trading provides a better chance of earning an income versus a flash game. I will either have to double the capital invested to double the income from writing options or I will have to begin day trading, a nerve wrecking activity that I have vowed to never touch again on several occasions. The test operation with real money started about two weeks ago and have netted about $150 since then. It might not seem a lot to you, but if you know that I have always lost money in day trading up until recently you’ll understand that it is a significant achievement. Call it part of learning, once I get a handle on this I will have eliminated most of what I need to know about the market leaving only bonds and futures to explore.

The beauty of day trading is not in buying that one sleeper stock and having it jump 100% but rather, to consistently earn 1% per day on your capital invested and walk away. For this operation, I need to expand my arsenal of codes that I can use to help me get that extra edge.

Web crawling to gather past trends is very important in my point of view, so I am going to start writing a webcrawler in Haskell to gather data for me. More precisely, to parse yahoo finances and store all the historical data, then using Matlab to plot the analysis that I wanted to do, but can never find on any of the software I use right now. I want this to be done very fast.

Execution

Installing the dev environment.

Platform installed.

Drank coffee.

Opened a bottle of beer.

Ahhh, the challenge of a new language. Little to no documentation and no installation instruction. Have I made a mistake?

LOL… well, trying to compile my first test crawler, got a “Not in scope: ‘main'” error. I think somebody forgot to mention something in the tutorials. Figured out that most of the tutorials that I can find on the web cannot be trusted. Yes you heard me. None of the examples compile on the first run. Of course, I have no idea what the compiler errors are trying to tell me either.

I guess I should take some time to read the whole tutorial instead of trying to compile a library right away.

That’s it for today. I need to figure out how to stream computer video to the TV for my parents.