sebastianfdz / trade-battles

Trade Battles is an exhilarating game that will put your inner stock trader to the test. Create battles with your friends and figure out who is the best trader. Each of the contestants will start out with $100,000 USD that they will be able to use throughout the battle to buy and sell real-time stocks. The battle duration will be set by the battle creator and at the end of the battle the person with the most profit will be the winner.

Trade Battles

Description

Trade Battles is an exhilarating game that will put your inner stock trader to the test. Create battles with your friends and figure out who is the best trader. Each of the contestants will start out with a chosen amount of capital that they will be able to use throughout the battle to buy and sell real-time stocks. The battle duration will be set by the battle creator and at the end of the battle the person with the most profit will be the winner.

Tech stack

Front-end

Back-end

Demo

I made a youtube video where I do a brief walkthrough of the app:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu79HIkxhPE

APIs Used

IEX Cloud

• IEX Cloud is a company that aims to level the trading playing field for long-term investors with real-time data of the markets.
• Trade battles relies heavily on this API and you can get a free API key on this link https://iexcloud.io/

Polygon.io

• Polygon.io handles the heavy lifting of fetching accurate, reliable and real-time financial data for developers to use on their applications.
• Trade battles makes use of Polygon.io through a free API key that can be created on this link https://polygon.io/

How to use the API keys

• These keys should be added to ./server/models/config.js

IOS Requirements

• Installations

  • Xcode

• Files

  • GoogleService-info.plist

• Configurations

  • Signing & Capabilities
    • Team (must be trusted or changed for build to run)
  • Info
    • URL Types
      • Identifier (set to Bundle Identifier found in General)
      • URL Schemes (set to value of REVERSED_CLIENT_ID found in GoogleService-info file)
      • Role (Editor)