Re: Stock-market progie

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Roman Suzi wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Micah Yoder wrote:
> 
> >A few months ago, someone E-mailed me to suggest a stock market
> >simulator.  Students would be able to have an immaginary portfolio, and
> >make their own trades.  Roger and I developed a way to get stock quotes
> >into a Perl program, but that's as far as we got.  I want to get a
> >couple other developers seriously interested in this before I do too
> >much more.  I think it would be reasonably quick to implement though,
> >and it would probably be entirely Web based.
> 
> I have not seen it, but probably this is what you want too:
> 
> >From yesterday freshmeat:
> 
>    RAPID 5.06
>    The RAPID software displays stock and commodity charts and provides
>    tools for analysis, trendlines, grid lines, averages, et cetera. These
>    tools are used to make trading decisions without fundamental knowledge
>    of a stock or commodity. The idea is to detect what other people are
>    doing and just tag along for the ride. It works in only 800x600 pixel
>    mode for now and the mouse does not yet work. Instead, the arrow and
>    function keys work.
> 
>    The import/export data F5 utility source code was missing from 5.05.
>    It is included it in this release. The menu highlighting in this
>    utility has also been fixed.
>      * [16]Download
>      * [17]Homepage
>   16. http://home.echo-on.net/~dpace/linuxrapid.html
>   17. http://home.echo-on.net/~dpace/

This doesn't really look like what we had in mind.  Basically, we were
thinking of something that would allow students to maintain an
immaginary portfolio and make trades.  It would then report to the
students and teacher how well they did, rank the class, etc.  It's not
really for stock analysis.