[nABEntre] Trading

Mon Dec 15 02:52:09 UTC 2025

I’m a Microsoft Word person. I don’t use Google Docs either. But Google Collab is very accessible. Sometimes after I run a cell, I find I have to arrow up through the results it just ran for me because the cursor ends up down at the bottom of the output. So that’s a little obnoxious. But it is what it is.

I do have the paid version of ChatGPT, but I think most other LLM‘s should be able to work this kind of stuff out. I guess you can play around with it. But even the free version of ChatGPT or even Claude could certainly be used. It doesn’t take a ton of back-and-forth to tell it what you want and get it to write out the whole code for you. Sometimes if you are like me and get easily overwhelmed with all the steps said all at once, maybe it will take a little bit more chat back-and-forth. Like I said, I like to request that it just give me one step at a time and do only one Collab sell at a time.

> I’ve built out multiple versions of things. I have one workflow in Google Collab now that scrutinizes my list of 86 potential stock tickers so I can at least sort out what fits my criteria each week so I don’t have to waste too much time. The output with that one is either that the ticker passes or fails my parameters. That way I don’t need to get bogged down in too much information with too many tickers all at once. Any tickers that fail are not shown and the other ones are put into a table where I can see a few basic data points about them. And then from there I can run those stock ticker through a few other checks so that I can understand what’s happening with the Bollinger bands, or have an idea of what the most common supports our within a certain range of time.
As far as the free Alpha Vantage, I don’t know about limits like you mentioned. I can actually run a full scan of all 86 stock tickers in one go of it, but I did need to have AI help me take into consideration that I had the free version. It now runs, I think, five tickers in succession and then weights whatever amount of time, 10 or 15 seconds maybe before it runs the next five. I didn’t know the exact parameters, but the chat bought knew the constraints and helped me make sure my code reflected those needs.
It ultimately takes me about 22 minutes to have the full list run and completed, but I just said that in the motion and go make myself coffee in the morning on Monday morning. I never like to set my trades up until at least an hour in to the trading day anyway. That’s my own personal preference.

> On Dec 13, 2025, at 9:41 PM, Sarah Clark via NABEntre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> This is so interesting. I don't have experience with Google Docs or anything like that, but if Google Collab is accessible, I can surely figure it out.
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> I haven't started the course yet, but I am pretty sure that it's strategy focuses primarily on reading candlestick charts as well as support and resistance levels. (I'm not sure how these two things are used in combination yet). But I will have to find a way to get both of them conveyed to me in a spreadsheet.
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> Did you use the paid version of Chat GPT or the free one? We used to pay for Chat GPT, but I think my husband recently switched us to Grok because it is a lot less expensive.
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> I see that Alpha Vantage lets you do 25 searches daily for free. I am hoping that that means that you can retrieve however many pieces of data you want for any single stock (in that it is all contained in a single row of cells, for example) and that will only count as 1 of those 25 searches?
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> So, as a simple example, having a spreadsheet retrieve each of OCHLV from each of the past 3 days for one stock only would count as 1 search and not 5 or 15 searches? If so, I'm fairly sure I can stay within that 25 limit most days.
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>> On 12/13/2025 4:00 PM, Asanda Pavlacka via NABEntre wrote:
>> I don’t know the first thing about coding either. It just makes code and I can copy and paste it in. Google Collab is pretty easy to figure out also. You just paste what’s given into a cell and then run the cell. If there’s multiple steps, you just go ahead and do the same thing for the following cell. and so on and so forth. I went and signed up for a free alpha vantage key so that I can pull the technical data I need.
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>> I told it I was brand new to any and all of it and I would need a very high level of hand holding to get things going and it really helped me figure everything out bit by bit. Even how to figure out what to do in Google Collab at first. I had never used that tool prior.
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>>>> On Dec 13, 2025, at 3:44 PM, Sarah Clark via NABEntre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Wow, this is very interesting. But did it fully write the code for you? Because I don't know anything about coding.
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>>>> On 12/13/2025 2:37 PM, Asanda Pavlacka via NABEntre wrote:
>>>> I started selling put and covered call options earlier this year. I didn’t have anyone to ask about how to read technicals or how to deal with candlestick charts as a blind person. So I asked ChatGPT how I could understand and do technical analysis with no vision. It was actually super helpful. It introduced me to alpha vantage and helped create Python code that I could copy and paste and then put into Google Collab in order to make spreadsheets and work flows that could turn the visual charts into readable data.
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>>>> Definitely harness the power of AI to help you out.
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>>>> And feel free to keep the conversation going here. I always enjoy connecting with people on the topic. It has quickly become a fun sort of hobby for me. It started out as me wanting to start a retirement account for myself and I’ve found it really fun, interesting, and of course rewarding.
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>>>> Asanda
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>>>>>> On Dec 13, 2025, at 1:49 PM, Michael Baldwin via NABEntre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> Depends on your trading style, and what you want for support and resistance.
>>>>> But here's an example.
>>>>> https://www.investing.com/equities/nvidia-corp-technical
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>>>>> Michael
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: NABEntre <nabentre-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sarah Clark via NABEntre
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2025 14:24
>>>>> To: nabentre at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Cc: Sarah Clark <sarah at sarahaclark.com>
>>>>> Subject: [nABEntre] Trading
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>>>>> Does anyone have experience trading stocks? If so, I am interested in learning how you go about getting access to all the relevant stock info.
>>>>> If anyone has experience in finding support and resistance levels I am particularly interested in learning where and how you get this info.
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>>>>> Thanks,
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>>>>> Sarah
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