namanctrvd / stocky

stock-market-game-simulation

Stock Market Game Simulation

The aim of our website is to monitor and update the stock prices of several companies in real time or with every refresh (with a maximum lag <1 minute), and using this data to simulate a Stock Market Game where a user can use virtual currency to invest and get a hands on experience on the working of the market.

Software and Libraries used

• For Web Scraping-

  • Pymongo: The PyMongo distribution contains tools for interacting with MongoDB databases from Python.
  • Beautiful Soup: Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents.
  • Requests: Requests is a Python HTTP library. It makes HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly.
  • Mongoose, Morgan, Lodash

• For DBMS

  • GCP
  • MONGODB
  • ATLAS (To host the MongoDB server)

• Languages Used

  • Python
  • Javascript

• For creating the website

  • NODEJS, Javascript, HTML CSS, Embedded Javascript

Features-

• Virtual Money
• Real Time Refreshes
• Fully functional User Login system

Methodology

graph LR;
    A(SHORTLISTING TOP </br> 50 COMPANIES)-->B(SCRAPING THEIR </br> MARKET PRICES </br> FROM NSE);
    B-->C(USER JOINS </br> THE GAME AND </br> LOGS IN);
    C-->D(THE PRICES </br> ARE DISPLAYED IN </br> THE MARKETPLACE);
    D-->E(USER USES </br> VIRTUAL MONEY </br> TO BUY STOCKS);
    E-->F(MARKET </br> REFRESHES);
    F-->G(USER INCURS </br> EITHER A PROFIT </br> OR A LOSS);

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User Sign In process

flowchart LR
    A(User lands on </br> the home page) ==> B[Users chooses to </br> create or joun a game]
    B ==> C[A unique ID is </br> generated for the user]
    C ==> D{User's entered </br> credentials are right?}
    D -->|No| E[The ID already </br> redistered, but one of </br> the entered credentials </br> isn't correct]
    E ==> A
    D -->|Yes| F[User Sign In </br> is succesfull]

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Game process

flowchart LR
    A(User </br> Sign In is </br>  succesfull) ==> B{Balance is 0}
    B -->|Yes| C[Bring back </br> to main menu]
    B -->|No| D[Take input of </br> the company name, </br> amount and operation]
    D ==> E{Does user </br> want to buy or </br> sell that amount}
    E -->|Sell| F[Decrease the </br> amount of stocks user </br> has for that company, </br> add the amount to </br>  user's balance]
    E -->|Buy| G[Increase the amount </br> of stocks user has for that </br> company and decrease the </br> amount spent from </br> user's balance]
    G ==> H[Stock market </br>  updates and the </br>  game starts again]
    F ==> H
    H ==> B

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User Interface (Screenshots)

Landing Page

User Sign In Page

Market Place

Buying Selling

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• Some features of the website are still in work. (Ranklist etc.)