stock-watcher in Practice: Let AI Monitor Your Portfolio

I'm not a professional investor and I don't stare at candlestick charts all day. But I do hold a few HK stocks and A-shares, and my daily headache wasn't research — it was not knowing how my positions were doing today.

The old way: open the phone brokerage app and check one by one. Then I found the stock-watcher skill on OpenClaw's ClawHub. After using it for a while, it's completely replaced my old monitoring habit. Here's how I use it.

What stock-watcher Can Do

Three things:

Manage watchlists — Add, remove, and view which stocks you're tracking
Query real-time quotes — Calls 10jqka (Tonghuashun) data API for price, change, volume, etc.
Generate performance summaries — Packages the recent trend of your full watchlist into a summary report

Data from Tonghuashun covers A-shares, HK stocks, and US stocks. No API key required — install and use immediately.

Installation

clawhub install stock-watcher

Adding Your First Watchlist

Add 700 (Tencent), 9988 (Alibaba), 0981 (SMIC) to my stock watchlist

OpenClaw calls stock-watcher's add command and writes these stocks to a local watchlist.json file. For A-shares, use numeric codes (e.g., 000001 for Ping An, 510300 for CSI 300 ETF).

Checking Today's Market

Most commonly used feature. Every morning around 10am:

How are my stocks doing today?

OpenClaw batch-queries all stocks in your watchlist and returns something like:

📊 Watchlist Performance (as of 10:23)

Tencent (700.HK)       395.20  ▲ +1.2%
Alibaba (9988.HK)       78.45  ▼ -0.8%
SMIC (981.HK)           22.10  ▲ +3.4% ⚡
CSI 300 ETF (510300)     4.012  → +0.1%
ChiNext ETF (159915)     1.876  ▼ -0.5%

SMIC jumped 3.4% that day — OpenClaw automatically added a ⚡ marker for unusual moves. A nice touch.

Setting Up Daily Summary Pushes

Send me a stock summary every day at 3pm (after A-share market close)

OpenClaw creates a cron job that generates the daily summary at 15:00 and sends it via Telegram or Discord. The cron only fires on weekdays (1-5) — no weekend pushes, sensible default.

During Earnings Season

When a company reports earnings, I check once after market open and once before close. If any stock has a ±3% move, I dig into the earnings or news. Caught SMIC up nearly 5% in one day from the daily summary, checked — AI chip sector tailwind — added to my position that afternoon. Not because AI gave me a buy signal, but because it made sure I didn't miss the information.

Limitations

Data delay: Tonghuashun data is near-real-time for A-shares during trading hours; HK stocks sometimes have a few minutes' lag. Don't use for high-frequency decisions.

No historical K-lines: stock-watcher shows current or recent prices only, no charts or technical analysis.

No buy/sell recommendations: This skill only aggregates information — no analysis, no recommendations. Investment judgment is yours.

US stock time zone: US market closes at ~4am Beijing time — configure cron times accordingly.

Pairing With hk-ai-stock-expert

ClawHub also has a hk-ai-stock-expert skill for deep analysis of HK AI-sector stocks. Our approach: stock-watcher tracks daily price moves; hk-ai-stock-expert provides background analysis when there's a major move. Complementary — information tracking and deep analysis stay separate.

Summary

stock-watcher is simple — its functions are relatively basic. But it solves a specific problem well: turning "open the app to check stocks" into "ask one question and get the answer."

For people who don't trade for a living but just want to keep tabs on their positions, this lightweight aggregation tool beats professional software that's 90% features you'll never use. Try it — the cost is essentially zero.