// searchForPattern looks at the historical market data of the passed tickers
// and analyzes the data for a specific pattern also passed as an argument
public static void searchForPattern(patterns pattern, string[] tickers, stockDataObj stock_dataobj, DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
{
int i = 0;
// iterate through each ticker to check for a pattern
while (i < tickers.Length)
{
// awaiter holds the return value of the asynchronous task getStockData
var awaiter = stock_dataobj.getStockData(tickers[i], startDate, endDate, pattern);
// this if statement forces the main() to wait until the current ticker is done being evaluated
// when the result of 1 is returned, move to the next ticker
if (awaiter.Result == 1)
{
i++;
}
}
return;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// initalizations...
string outputTxtFile = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../output.txt"; // used to output console data to a persistent file
string JSONfilename = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../chartdata.json"; // used to output json data to a persistent file, later transferred to server
// tickers used to find patterns for
string[] tickers = { "PLTR", "LI", "TLRY", "UAVS", "NEPT", "SNDL", "FSR", "RIDE",
"RIOT", "HYLN", "APHA", "SPLP", "LMND", "WNW", "LAZR", "CRSR", "CNI" };
DateTime endDate = DateTime.Today; // the end date is the most recent day, which is today
DateTime startDate = DateTime.Today.AddMonths(-6); // the start date is 6 months prior to today
File.WriteAllText(outputTxtFile, ""); // clears the outputtxtfile from previous runs
// File.WriteAllText(JSONfilename, "{\n\t\"ihs\":[\n");
// clears the output json data from previous runs
File.WriteAllText(JSONfilename, "{\n");
string imagesFolderPath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/";
// if the images folder does not exist, create it as we will need it to store pattern folders which contain the chart images
if (!Directory.Exists(imagesFolderPath))
{
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(imagesFolderPath);
di.Create();
}
string ihsImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/ihs/"; // declares the path for ihs image storage
string hsImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/hs/"; // path for hs image storage
string doubleTopImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/doubleTop/"; // path for doubletop image storage
string doubleBottomImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/doubleBottom/"; // path for double bottom image storage
string tripleTopImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/tripleTop/"; // path for triple top image storage
string tripleBottomImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/tripleBottom/"; // path for triple bottom image storage
string bullishRectangleImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/bullishRectangle/"; // path for bullish rectangle image storage
string bearishRectangleImagePath = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "../../../images/bearishRectangle/"; // path for bearish rectangle image storage
// imagepathslist holds all the image paths for the various patterns
List <string> imagePathsList = new List <string>();
imagePathsList.Add(ihsImagePath); imagePathsList.Add(hsImagePath);
imagePathsList.Add(doubleTopImagePath); imagePathsList.Add(doubleBottomImagePath);
imagePathsList.Add(tripleTopImagePath); imagePathsList.Add(tripleBottomImagePath);
imagePathsList.Add(bullishRectangleImagePath); imagePathsList.Add(bearishRectangleImagePath);
// if any images from previous runs is in the directory associated with a pattern, it is deleted
// else create the directory as we will need it to hold our chart images
// this is what the clearImageDir() call does.
for (int i = 0; i < imagePathsList.Count; i++)
{
clearImageDir(imagePathsList[i]);
}
// declare a stock data object to hold all the stock data for one ticker
stockDataObj stock_dataobj = new stockDataObj()
{
outputTxtFile = outputTxtFile,
JSONfilename = JSONfilename
};
List <patterns> patternsList = new List <patterns>();
patternsList.Add(patterns.ihs); patternsList.Add(patterns.hs);
patternsList.Add(patterns.doubleTop); patternsList.Add(patterns.doubleBottom);
patternsList.Add(patterns.tripleTop); patternsList.Add(patterns.tripleBottom);
patternsList.Add(patterns.bullishRectangle);
// searchForPattern will search the historical market data, trying to find a case
// that exhibits the specified pattern
for (int i = 0; i < patternsList.Count; i++)
{
searchForPattern(patternsList[i], tickers, stock_dataobj, startDate, endDate);
// the json document has a few syntactical errors after being printed to
// that is why the fixJsonDoc() call is made to correct these errors
fixJSONdoc(JSONfilename);
// this is the final step in printing to the json doc for the specified pattern
File.AppendAllText(JSONfilename, "\t],\n");
}
// the final pattern is a little special because the json document cannot have a comma
// after the closing bracket ]
searchForPattern(patterns.bearishRectangle, tickers, stock_dataobj, startDate, endDate);
fixJSONdoc(JSONfilename);
File.AppendAllText(JSONfilename, "\t]\n");
// finish up the json file
File.AppendAllText(JSONfilename, "\n}");
// program has finished execution
Console.WriteLine("All Done :) press any key to exit");
Console.ReadKey();
}
