trader

Trader is a command line tool build with node to crawl equity data and to rate equities with arbitrary rating systems.

The tool is inspired by [https://github.com/sscit/trader].

Installation

$ npm -g install trader

How to use the CLI tool

$ trader -h

  Usage: trader [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help               output usage information
    -V, --version            output the version number
    -p, --progress           show a progress bar if possible (do not use progress if you want to pipe the output)
    -i, --input <importer>   importer to use to fetch equities [dax]
    -o, --output <format>    choose output format [table]
    -r, --rating <type>      choose rating system [none]

Importers

There are the following importers shipped with trader:

• dax: Import the 30 DAX equities from Frankfurt Stock Exchange
• downjones: Import Dow Jones from Frankfurt Stock Exchange
• index(indexName, stockMarket=FSE): Import all equities of an index
• jsonfile(filename): Import equities from a JSON file with the same format of the JSON output formatter

Output Formatters

There are the following output formatters shipped with trader:

• table: Prints a text table (does not contain the full equity data though)
• json: Output JSON

Rating Systems

There are the following rating systems shipped with trader:

• orderby(factName, descending=true): Order equities by a fact in the latestFact object.
• levermann(indexName): Rating system according to Susanne Levermann's book "Der entspannte Weg zum Reichtum"

Examples

Load the 30 equities of the DAX and display as text table:

$ trader -i dax -o table

Load equities of TecDax from Frankfurt Stock Exchange and output as JSON:

$ trader -i index:tecdax:FSE -o json

Load a single equity by ISIN:

$ trader -i isin:DE0005419105:FSE -o table

Load the 30 equities of the DAX, display as text table and order by dividend per share descending:

$ trader -i dax -o table -r orderby:dividendPerShare

Rate DAX with Levermann rating system:

$ trader -i dax -o table -r levermann

Output DAX to file first, read from file and rate with Levermann:

$ trader -i dax -o json > dax.json
$ trader -i jsonfile:dax.json -o table -r levermann:DAX

Data Format

An equity object should contain the following attributes:

{
    isin: The ISIN unique equity id
    wkn: The WKN unique equity id
    name: The name of the equity
    currency: e.g. EUR or USD
    latestPrice: The current price (as realtime as possible)
    monthlyPrices: [...] Array of monthly prices of the first day in each month of the last 12 months starting with the price at the beginning of the current month.
    dailyPrices: [...] Array of daily prices at the beginning of each day in the last 30 trading(!) days starting with the price of the last ended trading day.
    latestFacts: {
        year: The year of the facts
        pbRatio: P/B ratio (german: KBV)
        peRatio: P/E ratio (german: KGV)
        dividendPerShare: (german: Dividende pro Aktie)
        returnOfEquity: (german: Eigenkapitalrendite)
        ebitMargin: (german: EBIT Marge)
        ebitdaMargin: (german: EBITDA Marge)
        equityRatio: (german: Eigenkapitalquote)
        marketCap: (german: Marktkapitalisierung)
        earningsPerShare: (german: Ergebnis je Aktie)
        dynamicPeRatio: (german: Dynamisches KGV)
        cashflowPerShare: (german: Cashflow je Aktie)
        pcfRatio: price / cashflow ratio (german: KCV)
        psRatio: price sales ratio (german: KUV)
        profitGrowth: (german: Gewinnwachstum)
        salesGrowth: (german: Umsatzwachstum)
        dividendYield: (german: Dividendenrendite)
        returnOnSales: (german: Brutto-Umsatzrendite)
        employees: number of employees
        sales: (german: Umsatz)
        cashfowMargin: (german: Cashflow-Marge)
        debtEquityRatio: (german: Verschuldungsgrad)
        dynamicDebtEquityRatio: (german: Dynamischer Verschuldungsgrad)
        cfroi: Cashflow Return-on-Investment
    }
    historicFacts: [{},...] Array containing the same objects as latestFacts but with facts of the last years, latestFacts is not included in this list
}

If some values cannot be retrieved they will be null.

Running Tests

$ grunt simplemocha

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Mario Volke <info@mariovolke.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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