Developing a Model for Online Stock Market Trading Terminal

Abstract

This project is a web-based software system for virtual stock trading. Users can log in the system and they can buy and sell stocks. The virtual system will permit practise and learn how the trade market works without real money. Virtual Trade uses the technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, CSS, mySQL, Apache, and AJAX. It works in a Uniform Server that includes Apache server, PHP and MySQL. The system records the history of stock prices and provides graphical information tools to present this data. Users will be able to view their personal information, own stocks, transaction history and their current orders to buy and sell and the prices of the stocks. Users can generate PDF files with an abstract of their information. Moreover, they can access with RSS to the purchases and sales. The users will be able to see how the transactions change and how the orders of buying and selling match them. If there is a buyer who wants to buy a stock for a certain amount of money and there is a seller who wants to sell this stock, it will be a transaction. The project has been programmed in PHP using queries in SQL. We practiced programming and we researched information about the trade market and the technologies AJAX to add utilities to the project.