Stock Simulator

The main home page where the news and links to the stocks is given
The portfolio page where the user knows his networth and all

Inspiration

In today's world, financial literacy is a key factor that allows us to live our lives the way we want to. Creating a stock simulator helps in understanding financial markets by providing a practical, risk-free environment to experiment with investing strategies and observe market dynamics, preparing individuals for real-world scenarios with minimized financial risk. By creating tools that help people understand the volatility of the stock market, this application will reduce the risk imposed by the real stock trading.

What it does

It allows a user to invest within various predetermined stocks. They will face challenges such as a bull market or a bear market. It allows us to garner valuable experience by showing the volatility of the stock market. A user can buy or sell any stock he wishes, view his networth, view how the price of a stock has changed over time, etc.

How we built it

Using the django framework, I built the backend that is responsible for the logic of buying, selling, showing various news, and even routing a user to the various pages. I used HTML and CSS for frontend to provide a much more user friendly interface.

Challenges we ran into

By creating such a huge code and completing this project completely alone, debugging and adding new features proved to be massive challenges. One of the more difficult challenges was adding the part where we can display news and have it affect various stock prices. This added a more dynamic strategy and opened a world of possibilities, however - the image would either display or wouldn't display. Debugging this alone took atleast 3-5 hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This project allowed me to display my python skills as well as my designing skills. Since my main goal to spread financial literacy, this project provided me an opportunity to preach that very goal.