Project Requirements & Brainstorming
This page lists a wide variety of possible features that can be implemented into the SOU Stock Market Simulator project.
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Stock Market News Feed
- Focus on news stories related to user's stock symbols
- Similar to the Google Finance news feed
Top Stock Gains & Losses for the Week
- Current week only? Last 7 days? Both?
Ability to Search for stock symbols
- For all stocks or just top (x)?
Stock Recommendations
- top 5 or 10 stocks broke down from aggressive to safe
Stock Performance & Analysis
- Individual Stock Symbol Analysis
- Charting by day, month, week, and year.
- Comparison of two symbols.
- Trending over how long? info included or just price comparison?
User Interactions
- List Open Orders
- Ability to buy and sell
Trade History
- Should we have a length on this?
- Personal trade history vs overall trade history?
Current Holdings
- You should be able to quickly get an idea of how well your stocks are doing
- Suggested data to display:
Name
Current price
Price Change (day, month, year)
Quantity of shares
Total Value
User Login System
- Username and Password
- send email to user after 3 wrong password attempts
- Login Password standards
- Send conformation email
End-User Support
- FAQ
- Help
- Glossary
- Describe functionality of various buttons and pages
- A 'how to' description on how to buy and sell stocks
- user database with hashed passwords that are salted with a random salt
Indexes
- What's this?
Top Users
- A Competitive Aspect displaying (or through a side menu)the top users for the week/day/etc.
- Trade-off listing
Web Interface
- UI with Fancy Logo
Data Export
- export mashups to other authorized users
Data Storage
- secure/encrypted Data Storage
Security Watchlist
- Possible feature by which the user adds Securities (and by Securities I mean financial instruments) to their "Watchlists".
- Email or text alert when a stock drops or reaches a specified price.
- Examples of what a quick look at the watchlists will show the user: securities added to watchlist are grouped into rows by Security type (e.g., common stocks, mutual funds, bonds, options). See picture for example:
- Under a given Security type the first column will show Symbol and Name.
- Second, third and fourth column respectively will show current price, Change($) from previous open, and Change(%) from previous open.
Ambient Device
- It should be possible to assemble a USB-powered microcontroller, which can communicate with the stock ticker program. The microcontroller would be able to control lamps, leds, and other devices. Might be handy if we wanted to add an ambient device, displaying current stock trends at a glance. -Ryan5732
- Example Link: Stock Orb
Similar Stock Market Tools:
- Google Portfolio
- www.marketocracy.com
- Many more available, can search the web for examples