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Project Requirements & Brainstorming

Ryan5732 edited this page Sep 27, 2012 · 37 revisions

SOU Stock Market Simulator List of Features

  • News feed (ala google finance) associated with stock symbols

  • Weeks top gainers and losers

    1. Traders or stocks?
  • Search for stock symbols
    for all stocks or just top (x)

  • Make analyses of indivual symbols available.

  • Recommendations.

  • Charting - day, month, week, year

  • Open orders.

  • Comparison of two symbols.
    trending over how long? info inlcuded or just price comparison?

  • 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

  • login system
    username and password , send email to user after 3 wrong password attempts

  • FAQ (help, glossary)
    Describe functionality of various buttons and pages
    A how to description on how to buy and sell stocks

  • Indexes

  • Trade-off listing

  • Web UI with Fancy Logo

  • export mashups to other authorized users

  • Login Password standards

  • Top Users - A Competitive Aspect displaying (or through a side menu)the top users for the week/day/etc.

  • secure/encrypted data storage (user database with hashed passwords that are salted with a random salt)

  • 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 user 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.

    Example of Watchlists

This is a test.  Minor Threat - Cashing in

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