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Investr

Investr is an app that allows individuals and groups to compete in the virtual investment and trading of stocks, cryptocurrency, commodities, and foreign currency. Users can build portfolios and track the performance of their investments in comparison to other users and the greater Investr community. Users have the option to read news targeted to their portfolios, chat regarding their selections, review investment best practices, and even transfer investment allocations to popular real-world trading platforms. With integrated push notifications, investors can be notified of market movements in real time in order to make informed trading decisions.

User Stories

Core:

  • Users can login via Facebook.
  • Users can receive push notifications concerning market movements.
  • Users can access a marketplace where they can perform the following actions.
  • Users can buy and sell assets.
  • Users can view an asset's current price and historical performance.
  • User can create custom competitions.
  • Competitions can have a custom starting and ending date.
  • The initial investment amount is variable but uniform across all participants.
  • Users can review their portfolios for each of their competitions.
  • Users can review rankings within each competition.
  • After creating a competition, the creator can see all registered users and invite nearby users (via GPS location)

Stretch:

  • Users can receive news targeted to their investment portfolios.
  • Users can chat amongst competition participants.
  • Users can participate in a basic investment best practices tutorial.
  • Users can transfer their portfolios to real world trading platforms.
  • Users are alerted upon login with an image/gif representing their performance in the market.
  • Users can view a portfolio's historical performance.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Notes

Open-source and other libraries used

License

Copyright 2017 Sahil Agarwal and Michael Signorotti

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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