Trading Algorithm

Inspiration

Demetri and I wanted to collaborate on a coding project that would allow for utilization of both our backgrounds. His background being in finance(trading), and mine being in computer science.

What it does

We came up with a random stock price generator that would similarly mimic a real world stock price, and then came up with a algorithm that made decisions on whether to buy or sell within the randomly generated stock price for long term profits.

How we built it

1) Made stock pricing generator 2) Implement rules for buying and selling 3) Calculating money gain or loss

Challenges we ran into

We had some group issues in the beginning, some of the members lost interest and then we had a 50/50 separation. After this, we then had to figure out how to properly implement probability into our number generator. Calculating when to buy and sell was also another issue we faced.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to make a fairly reasonable model of the stock market. Also, within certain parameters the algorithm would generate profits automatically without human involvement.

What we learned

We learned how to create a random number generator using Java.

What's next for Trading Algorithm

Further uses of this trading algorithm would be to implement it to a certain stock API for real time stock pricing and connecting to real stock trading account to start real world trades.

Built With

• java