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Use SAPIEN PowerShell Studio to protect your Nintendo Stock Gains

Thanks to a lot of press, Pokémon Go raised Nintendo’s stock price by over 30% Today.  Unfortunately, you may not be able to set a stop loss on it to protect those gains because it is traded on a foreign stock market.  In this post, we will use SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2016 to create a small GUI to alert us should the stock fall below a specified price.


First off, create a New Form Project.


Next you will need to create a form using 3 labels and 2 text boxes. Set the name of the first text box to Textbox_Symbol and the second to Textbox_Low  for the fourth label, set the name to Label_Price.  The names of the other form controls do not matter for this exercise.

Pre-populate the value of Symbol with NTDOY.  Also pre-populate the value of Low with your selling price.

Also add a Timer control and leave the default settings.

In the script tab, replace the code with what is below.
$MainForm_Load={
  $timer1.Interval = 5000
       $timer1.Start()
}



$timer1_Tick={
       # Set the refresh for 5 minutes.
       $timer1.Interval = 300000
      
       function Get-StockInfo
       {
             
              $Sym = $textbox_Symbol.Text
              $URL = "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$Sym&f=snl1ghjk"
             
              $Obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
                     Ask = $Null
                     DayLow = $Null
                     DayHigh = $Null
                     YearLow = $Null
                     YearHigh = $Null
              }
             
              $Data = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URL
              $Data = $Data.Replace("N/A", "NA")
              $Obj.Ask = ($Data.Split(","))[2]
              $Obj.DayLow = ($Data.Split(","))[3]
              $Obj.DayHigh = ($Data.Split(","))[4]
              $Obj.YearLow = ($Data.Split(","))[5]
              $Obj.YearHigh = ($Data.Split(","))[6]
             
              $label_Price.Text = $Obj.Ask
              If ($Obj.ask -gt $textbox_Low.text) {$label_Price.BackColor = 'Green'}
              Else { $label_Price.BackColor = 'Red'}
             
       } # END: function Get-StockInfo
      
       Get-StockInfo
}#end timer1_Tick


Here is the end result.

Not much, but if the price drops below $27.00, the price turns red.  This is just a basic example of how to create a GUI with SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2016.  I encourage you to download the trial edition. You can down load it from here:

Remember that this is an alert from data that is about 10 to 20 minutes old.  You will also have to trigger the sell manually.  This is just a demo to show you the possibilities of using SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2016 and not an actual stock trading tool.


Comments

Anonymous said…
Nice example, thanks! You can simplify the code by using CovertFrom-Csv for the custom object creation replacing 12 lines of code with:
$Obj = $Data.Replace("N/A","NA")|ConvertFrom-Csv -Header Symbol,Description,Ask,Daylow,DayHigh,YearLow,YearHigh

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