I used to spend 1-2 hours every morning manually filtering stocks. Checking volume spikes, price drops, PE ratios across hundreds of tickers. It worked, but it was exhausting.

So I built a Python script to do it for me.

The setup is dead simple:

• It runs a scan at 9:25 AM every trading day

• Filters the entire market based on my custom criteria

• Sends matching stocks directly to my phone via push notification

The whole thing runs on a cheap cloud server for $22/month. I haven't manually screened a stock in months.

What surprised me most: the consistency. A human gets lazy, skips days, changes criteria on a whim. The bot doesn't. It runs the same filters every single day, and the results are way more reliable than my gut feeling.

If you're a retail investor still doing this manually, you're burning time you don't need to burn. I packaged the entire tool — source code, 4 strategy templates, setup tutorial, deployment guide — so anyone can set it up in 5 minutes with zero coding experience.