Seth,
Not sure if this is relevant to you but...
A couple of us are working on adding the Finance API into the Zend Framework
(http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.gdata.html)
We have written some code and have some demos here:
http://code.google.com/p/zf-google-finance/
Keep in mind, this is very alpha code however, i do expect it to be
robust in a short period of time.
Let me know if you want more details.
- Doug
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Seth Ellis <twd...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've recently become interested in using a stock market simulator. I
know absolutely nothing about the stock marekt, but I am learning
quickly. I've tried a lot of the more popular stock market simulators
such as http://tippingmonkey.com and http://investorpedia.com
However, in all cases I have found their tools to be somewhat
lacking. Many of the graphs suck, and you don't get to see real time
updates. Usually you have to refresh the page to see changes, and
even then their feeds are delayed 20-40 minutes.
I quickly found that Google Finance provides almost everything I've
been looking for. The only thing lacking is an interface geared
towards a simulator. For instance right now you have to edit
transactions and put in the price that you bought the stock for. The
simulator interface would have a screen to help you simply buy the
stock at current market price. I realized that using the Google
Finance API you could easily create a great stock market simulator.
I've done quite a bit of web development work (mostly PHP/MySQL), and
I thought it would be a great project to learn how to use API's. The
only thing is that I don't want to waste my time on something that's
already been done. I'm surprised that this isn't something someone
has already written. Do you know of any applications out on the web
that have some of these features, and use the Google Finance API?
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