Top Best/Worst Performing Stocks with Python

Just 13 lines of code, I promise

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First, we need to define the stocks we wanna watch:

Then let's use Python's ffn library to get the closing prices of the last three trading sessions (three because we might be on a weekend):

Once we have the prices, let's calculate the percentual change over the days, remove any n/a values and get the last price diff using iloc[-1:]:

We also need to transpose the data frame and reset the index before advancing to the final step:

Here we get the top 5 best and worst performing stocks over the last trading session.

Putting all together now:

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