Stock Portfolio GUI Project
Goal
You are to write a GUI program that will allow a user to buy, sell and view stocks in a stock portfolio. This document will describe the minimum expected functions for a grade of 90.
Your mission is to "go and do better." The meaning of "do better" is largely up to you. For example, you might track the profit or loss on the trades. You might allow for sales of partial holdings, or subsequent purchases to be added to an existing holding. Be creative.
Objectives
By the end of this project, the student will be able to
write a GUI program that maintains a cash balance, list of stock holdings, supports buying and selling of stocks and displays the current portfolio inventory
demonstrate the ability to assemble already-written classes into a larger, more complicated program
demonstrate the ability to segregate business logic from user interface code.
Capabilities
At a minimum, the program should
allow a user to buy a stock with a given number of shares and price per share.
display the current portfolio (stock ticker, number of shares, initial price).
update the portfolio display for purchases and sales.
allow the user to sell all of the shares of a given stock.
give the user an initial cash balance, and update and display the balance according to the user's purchases and sales.
ignore any transaction that causes the cash position to go below $0.
Sample Execution
The initial frame has text fields for the stock ticker, number of shares, and price per share. It has a label for the current cash balance. It also has "buy" and "sell" buttons.