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:

https://www.sapien.com/software/powershell_studio

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.