Trade Boutique

Trade Boutique is an intuitive and easy to use virtual stock trading platform.

Features

• Developed with the MEAN Stack
• Designed to scale easily
• Deployed via Heroku
• Real-time price updates
• Six international stock markets
• Financial data available for every company
• Up-to-date financial news

How it works

• Information is sent to the client via a REST API using data retrieved from the database
• The database is populated by calls made to several financial news and financial data APIs
• Stock prices are updated in real-time, when the markets are opened, with the help of a Cron Job
• If a symbol that is not in the database is requested, the app will connect to the external APIs and try to get financial data, news and the price for that symbol
• Since the external APIs used are free (therefore not 100% reliable), back-up APIs have also been added.

Getting Started

set NODE_ENV=development as an environment variable

The platform uses Auth0.com to manage user Sign Up and Log In as well as a financial news API. You will need to set up accounts with these providers and export all the API Keys from a ".config" file located in your root folder. Alternatively, you could set the API Keys as environment variables on a Linux system.

https://auth0.com/

Create a free account and store the Client Secret and Client ID as "AUTH_CLIENT_SECRET" and "AUTH_CLIENT_ID". You will also need to set the Domain and Client ID in Angular, in app.config.js

https://newsriver.io/

Create a free account and store the Authorization code in a variable named "RIVER_NEWS_AUTHORIZATION". This service is used as a back-up in case http://finance.yahoo.com/ is not working.

Built With

• Node.js - Server-side language

• Express.js - Framework for Node

• MongoDB - Database

• Mongoose - Object modeling for MongoDB

• Angular - Front-end framework

• Angular Material - UI Component Framework

• NPM - Back-end package manager

• Bower - Front-end package manager

• StandardJS - Coding style guide

Contributing

If you wish to contribute, please let me know and I will send you a TODO list of features that I want to implement in the near future.

Authors

• Daniel Nitu - Initial work

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details