Stock Trading Emulator

Abstract

The project’s goal is to provide a platform to practice and learn more about stock trading in the form of a game. The stock emulator in its final form would work as a web application built into a server. For this project’s scope, the application runs on a single machine within a web browser. Our stock emulator was built using Microsoft’s ASP.NET platform with C# as the main programing language for the back-end processes, and the graphical user-interface was made with HTML and CSS. Our project is divided into two sections, the ASP.NET application that contains the front-end and all user interaction, and a separate C# program that is used to obtain the current stock data from the Alpha Vantage API and then store that data into a database. The data for the stock emulator is saved using a MySQL relational database that is accessed by the ASP.NET application and the C# back-end process. The MySQL database was set up on the development machine using XAMPP as an interface to install and manipulate the database.