StockWatch Developers: Nimrod Hagay Hagai Barkan Supervisors: Assaf Solomovitch Viktor Kulikov June 2009

StockWatch is a website (ASP.NET) which provides a User centric interface for managing stock portfolios, supply stock technical analysis (based on web site), Live market data and news. Overview

StockWatch should use advanced technologies such as AJAX, ASP.NET, JavaScript and Online data management APIS. StockWatch should be User friendly, attractive and quickly responsive. StockWatch should provide free technical analysis combined with real-time data and news feeds. StockWatch should relay on stable data sources. Project Goals

Multiple Users System Real Time Quotes Rich presentation layer Google Portfolios API User Portfolios Stocks Grading Various News Feeds Admin Management Main features

ASP.NET 3.5 ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX extension. Microsoft SQL. C# (.NET framework 3.5). Google spreadsheets API (C#). JavaScript YUI – Yahoo User Interface Google Visualizations Google Ajax Feed API Technologies

3-Layers Design AJAX ASP.NET Google visualizations YUI Google Spreadsheets API SqlDataSource Yahoo web service

Layer 0 - Data sources Google finance Google Spreadsheets American Bulls StockWatch DB Portfolios page Stock page Yahoo finance Yahoo Web Service Google Portfolios API StockParser

Database – Layer 0

Google spreadsheet – Layer 0 Auto updates data Easy API for querying and updating data

Layer 1 - DAL Google Portfolios API - User portfolios are saved on A Google spreadsheet in order to get real time data. The API Provides an easy interface managing user’s portfolios. SqlDataSource – allows us to access and manipulate data in an ASP.NET page without using ADO.NET classes directly. Yahoo web service – provides an easy access to Yahoo finance real time data.

Layer 2 – Business logic – the whole picture

Layer 2 – Business logic – Users management & security StockWatch uses ASP.NET Built-in Users Management mechanism. The mechanism generate memberships data tables in the database. Built-in User controls offer easy login (Login control), registration (CreateUserWizard), Password recovery and Dynamic content according to the user state (LoginView control). Roles management – StockWatch uses the roles mechanism in order to distinguish between Admin user (management page) and regular user.

StockWatch collect news feeds from Yahoo finance, Google finance & Msn money. News feeds are dynamic according to the presented stock or stocks in current portfolio. News feeds are being displayed using Google feed Ajax API. (client side). Layer 2 – Business logic – News feeds

Layer 2 – Business logic – American Bulls data parsing Everyday at 2 am a data parsing process gets data from American Bulls web pages. The process has 3 stages : ◦Page download ◦Data parsing and saving into data base ◦Grading process:  Grade = (Stock hits / Stock predictions)  The information for the stock grade is based on predictions results history from American bulls.

We used Ajax auto complete control for symbol search, this control use Web Service function. The use of Web Service helps the System run smoothly, and enhance the system performance. Update Panel : Layer 3 – Presentation layer – AJAX

Layer 3 – Presentation layer – Google Visualization Dynamic News Feeds Google Table