/greens

Web application inspired by Robinhood, that utilizes Ruby / Rails on the backend and React / Redux on the frontend to display companies' stock prices and allows trading of virtual stock shares.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

README

Greens, a clone of Robinhood, is an app where users can view historic company stock prices in the form of charts. Users can also build up their own virtual portfolio.

Technologies Used

Greens was built on the framework, Rails, to organize data related to users, companies and stock prices. Historical stock price data was provided for free by IEX. View IEX's Terms of Use. Company summery information was provided by IEX and Bloomberg. Greens utilized the React/Redux and Recharts libraries to present information from the backend to the broswer.

Features

  • create and retrieve account
  • search existing companies in the database
  • view historic company stock price on charts at different timeframes
  • hover over chart to view specific historic price
  • view specific company information and recent news
  • buy virtual shares of company stocks
  • keep portfolio of virtual active positions

Future Features

  • account holds a watchlist
    • be able to add and remove items on watchlist
  • create historic data for user portfolio
    • display user portfolio on dashboard chart