Project Requirements & Brainstorming

This page lists a wide variety of possible features that can be implemented into the SOU Stock Market Simulator project.

Brainstorm Ideas

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

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

End-User Support

• FAQ
• Help
• Glossary
• Describe functionality of various buttons and pages
• A 'how to' description on how to buy and sell stocks

Indexes

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
• user database with hashed passwords that are salted with a random salt

Security Watchlist

• Possible feature by which the user adds Securities (and by Securities I mean financial instruments) to their "Watchlists".

Email Alerts

• Email or text alert when a stock drops or reaches a specified price.

Example Watchlist

• 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.
  

Notes:

• google for stock market game
• marketocracy.com
• Ticker Feed Format: PDF LINK