The goal of this assignment is to develop the XML schemas
for several documents used in stock trading:
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Engineering of Web Applications
Group Project, Assignment #2
1. XML Model of Stock Trading Information
To do this, you will need to find out which information goes into each of these documents and use a tool (described below) to design a graphical model of those documents.
Relevant papers for this project include:
What
Determines the Market Impact of Stock Recommendations?
Sauder School of Business working paper by Xia Chen
and Qiang Cheng, University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of
British Columbia - Sauder School of Business; March 1, 2003.
... the paper proposes a simple framework for understanding the
process that financial analysts use to issue stock
recommendations...
More publications by Qiang
Cheng
Also of interest:
Analyst
Recommendations: Do Sell Ratings Exist?
by Cory Janssen, Co-Founder, Investopedia.com
① Request for a stock analyst's opinion: An investor considering trading some stock shares may contact a financial analyst and request a recommendation about particular stocks. To place the request for recommendation, the investor needs to specify certain information. Unfortunately, this is not standardized and you will need to figure out what information should go into a request for an opinion about a stock. Of course, the first thing to specify is the company name and ticker symbol for the planned stock trading. However, other information may also be helpful to the analyst to make the recommendation, such as the investor's investment outlook (long-term vs. short-term), etc. You may find helpful this form which specifies a Search for Analyst Reports. (You may wish to check also the rest of the Fidelity's Equity Research Library.)
② Stock analyst's recommendation report: An analyst report extracts a wide variety of market intelligence from marketing research studies to industry analyses, newsletters to global market reports. Investment research reports could be issued on companies, industries, geographic regions and product information. There is no standard way of reporting analyst recommendations. Here is one useful example from Yahoo! Finance: Analyst opinion for Google Inc.
Other relevant sources include:
StockScouter
Ratings
StockScouter rates stocks from 1 to 10, with 10 being
the best, using a system of advanced mathematics to determine a
stock's expected risk and return.
Ratings are displayed on a bell curve, meaning there will be fewer
ratings of 1 and 10 and far more of 4 through 7.
MarketWatch.com: Analyst
Recommendation
CMC Markets Stockbroking Ltd. recommendations
from brokers and analysts
Google search for stock
analyst opinions
③ Trading order: A trading order is a client’s instruction to a broker to buy or sell a security. There are many types of order qualifiers that stipulate such things as the amount of time in which to leave an order in and at what price to execute an order.
Intro
to Stock Trading, By Joshua Kennon, About.com
This basic tutorial on stock trading provides twelve
different types of stock trading orders investors can use to help
manage their portfolio.
See also: Quick
Definitions of Stock Trading Orders |
Use the Investopedia Stock Simulator to Practice Trading
④ Trading order ticket: An order ticket
is a form that is completed by a broker when receiving an order from a
client. The order ticket will show the type of order (buy or sell),
the number of shares, the security’s name, the price
qualifications (such as market or limit) and the client’s name
and account number.
(Check examples here
and here
and here.)
Once you develop a good understanding about what information should go into each of the above four documents, you will create an XML model of each document. Based on the model, the modeling tool will allow you to automatically generate the corresponding XML schemas.
For XML modeling you should use hyperModel, which is a plug-in that may be installed into an Eclipse workbench.
State
of the art in XML modeling
Thinking XML: What
do developers need to know about the various approaches to semantic
transparency?
by Uche Ogbuji, Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.; 11 Mar 2005.
Design
XML vocabularies with UML tools
Working XML: UML, XMI, and code generation, Part 1
by Benoit Marchal, Consultant, Pineapplesoft; 31 Mar 2004.
Google search XML Modeling
Each group should email a single ZIP file containing the following:
hyperModel (save the model
file from hyperModel) hyperModel (describe your
diagrams and define each element and its attributes, don’t show
only the diagrams) Submission deadline: no later than 5:00 PM on the due date
given here.
(
Note: Keep all the source code and documentation because you
will need it for future deliverables on your group project. )