Generate Daily Investment Ideas with Yahoo Finance and Google Gemini

The workflow JSON

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        "content": "## Summary\nThis workflow, Investment Idea Generator, is an automated n8n pipeline that scans a watchlist of stocks/crypto, fetches real-time market data and uses AI to distill the information into high-conviction trading ideas.\n\n## How it works\n1 Trigger & Retrieval: The Scheduler triggers daily at 8:00 AM, pulling \"Active\" tickers from your Watchlist Data Table.\n\n2 Data Fetching Loop: It loops through each ticker to fetch live prices and the latest news headlines via the Yahoo Finance API.\n\n3 Aggregation: The Packager combines price and news for each ticker and the Bundler gathers all results into a single market report.\n\n4 AI Analysis: The AI Agent (powered by Google Gemini) reviews the report to identify the top 2\u20133 investment ideas based on news sentiment and catalysts.\n\n5 Final Storage: The Code node formats the AI's response into a clean table, which is then saved to the Daily Ideas Data Table.\n\n## Setup Steps\n- Credentials: Add your Google Gemini API Key to the Google Gemini Chat Model node.\n\n- Data Tables: * Ensure you have an n8n Data Table named PT-HarshalS_Coins-WatchList with a column Status (set to \"Active\") and a column for Ticker.\n\n- Create a second Data Table named Crypto_Daily_Ideas with columns: Ticker, Idea_Title, Catalyst_Summary and Conviction_Level.\n\n- API Access: Ensure your n8n instance can reach query1.finance.yahoo.com and query2.finance.yahoo.com (no API key is usually required for these basic Yahoo endpoints)."
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        "content": "## Analysis & Output\nThe AI analyzes the bundled data to find the best ideas. The results are then cleaned into a readable format and saved to your final results table.\nAnalyze the market report and generate the top 2 - 3 investment ideas."
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        "content": "## HTTP Request Node\nFor every ticker, it reaches out to Yahoo Finance to grab the live trading price and the most recent news headlines."
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        "content": "## Data Input & Control\nThis section triggers the workflow daily and pulls your active watchlisted tickers from the database to start the processing loop."
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        "content": "## Final Formatting & Storage\nCleans the AI's conversational response into a structured data format and saves the final investment signals into the Daily Ideas table for review."
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About this workflow

This workflow serves as your personal quantitative analyst. It automatically fetches your active watchlist, grabs real-time prices and breaking news from Yahoo Finance and uses Google Gemini AI to analyze the data and highlight the top 2 to 3 daily investment opportunities.

Source: https://n8n.io/workflows/15066/ — original creator credit. Request a take-down →

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