Morten MacFly - 2023-05-20

This explains how to track a stock market item (or any other figure) and how to setup WCM to do so.
To track the value of the Intel company (as an example) you first need to find a page that shows this value.

  • Setup a new item https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/intc-stock
  • Give the item a description (e.g. "Intel").
  • Use "Deep check" (based on content only).
  • Enable "Strip white-spaces" (this will remove any excessive white-spaces you often find on web-pages)
  • Switch to the "Content" tab.
  • Find the current value in the content, for example, search for "29.97" (as of today).
  • You will find this line: <span class="price-section__current-value">29.97</span>
  • Therefore, enable to use the start-tag and set it to: <span class="price-section__current-value">
  • Enable to use the stop-tag and set it to: </span>
  • (Notice that the characters which are not part of the value will be ignored.)
  • Switch to the "Content interpreter" tab and setup to interpret the (filtered) content as float number of type "1,234.56".

Now...

  • Setup checks as you like, whenever you have collected enough data, right-click on the item and select "Info".
  • Switch to the "Content history" tab and select "Content" to plot and hit "Plot".
  • This will show the history of that value.

Remember: WCM can even do more, WCM can inform you every time the value changes, report if the value drops below or increased above a certain comparison value, can send an email, trigger an action and so forth...

 

Last edit: Morten MacFly 2023-05-20