Sector and Industry Analysis — Gamestonk Terminal
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The end-to-end story of developing a new Sector and Industry Analysis for Gamestonk Terminal from scratch.
On the 13th of October, Jeroen Bouma (a ALM advisor and python enthusiast) reached out in order to integrate his FinanceDatabase package into Gamestonk Terminal.
After having a call with Jeroen to bounce ideas, it was clear that our terminal needed such capability to be even more powerful (as if over 500 features already and counting didn’t already do the trick eheh). However, at the time I was too busy to work on the concept so I asked Jeroen if he could sketch something up on a jupyter notebook.
Within the following week, Jeroen sent a Jupyter notebook explaining the FinanceDatabase module and what we could have in a Sector and Industry analysis.
In addition, he also mentioned his PassiveInvestor package, and ended up implementing it on his own in Gamestonk Terminal! This was a great addition, as it strengthened our ETF context and provided a slick Excel report for the Excel fans out there! See his LinkedIn post on the experience.
Forward to last weekend (1.5 months later), I had a free Sunday afternoon so started working on the development of this menu. I started by thinking about what would make this menu more flexible and powerful.
These were my thoughts about what it needs:
- Several filtering parameters as the number of companies in the database is pretty huge with 155.705 tickers, 16 sectors, 242 industries, 111 countries and 82 exchanges.
These were the filters selected: Country, Sector, Industry, Market Cap…
