SIGNALIST: Stock Tracker Web Application

This paper presented Signalist, a real-time, AI-enhanced, web-based stock analysis platform designed to bridge the gap between complex financial systems and everyday users. The system integrates live market data ingestion, technical indica-tor computation, threshold-based alerting, and large language model-driven market summaries within a scalable, event-driven architecture. Evaluation demonstrates low-latency API responses (avg. 147 ms), high alert delivery reliability (99.6%), and strong user task completion rates (93.4% overall). The layered modular design provides a solid foundation for future extensions, including predictive modeling and live trading integration, contributing a practical reference architecture to the growing body of intelligent FinTech systems.

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