Automating Episodic Pivot Stock Screening with Python & AI

Written By Hongjia Zhang

I just released a step-by-step walkthrough where I build a Python stock screener that:
✅ Identifies Episodic Pivot (EP) stocks
✅ Scrapes recent news from Finviz
✅ Summarises headlines with GPT-4
✅ Sends a neatly formatted email report

This project is a great example of how you can bring simple tech into finance — combining data, automation, and AI to save hours of manual research. Best of all, the script is fully customizable, so you can tweak it to fit your own trading workflow.

🔍 Whether you’re:

  • A trader curious about automation,

  • A developer interested in finance projects, or

  • Just looking for a practical way to apply Python + AI,

this is a great place to start.

Download the script here.

Hongjia Zhang
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