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Overview: PaperTrade

PaperTrade is a command line paper trading application that allows users to simulate the buying and selling of stocks. A paper trade is a simulated trade that allows an investor to practice buying and selling stocks without risking real money.

Summary of Contributions

• New Feature: Added View function

  • What it does: Allow users to view portfolio of stocks that they currently own. It includes quantity owned, transaction history, current market price and current profit/loss.

  • Justification: This is a feature that allows users to keep track of their portfolio of stocks and to track how well their stocks owned are doing in terms of profit/loss, relative to latest market price.

  • Highlights: To implement this, there is PortfolioManager that is able to access Portfolio which encapsulates Stock and Transaction. Stock object also has a method to retrieve latest market price through the use of StockPriceFetcher.

Code contributed: RepoSense Link

Documentation

• Developer Guide:
  • Added Object State Diagrams to give the overall view of View portfolio stocks function. Also explained the step by step changes made to the respective classes as the View method is called in each class. #45