morphosis-nitmz/stock-bridge-2018

An online stock market simulator built using Django.

Stock Bridge

Keeping in view the real thrill of the market monotony, we are here with the Virtual Simulation of the same thrill and adrenaline rush through the event under the banner of Morphosis, NIT Mizoram. The virtual share market enables the participants to trade, buy, sell mortgage and showcase their rationality, their mettle against competitive decision making under pressure. The full time active virtual market will be a platform to showcase your inferential, pressure-handling capability.

Tools Used

• Python - Django, Django REST Framework
• Javascript - Chart.js
• Bootstrap v4

Third Party Services Used

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Stores all static and media files.
• Heroku: Used to deploy the project in production environment.
• sendgrid: Used to send transactional emails like email-id verification, order completion etc.

Instructions for setting up the project

1. Clone the repository
   git clone https://github.com/morphosis-nitmz/Stock-Bridge

2. Rename the file .env-sample to .env and replace the value of SECRET_KEY with the secret key of your own project. To generate a new secret key

   • Go to terminal and create a new django project django-admin startproject <proj-name>.
   • Now get the value of SECRET_KEY in settings.py and use that as the secret key for the Stock-Bridge project.
   • Now delete that new django project.

3. Sendgrid setup:

   • Create an account on sendgrid.
   • Add your sendgrid username and password to EMAIL_HOST_USER and EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD in .env respectively.
   • Change the email and name in DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL and MANAGERS in all settings files with your name and email.

4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) setup:
   Follow this guide to setup AWS in the project: AWS Setup. After settings up AWS, add all the required values to .env

5. Heroku setup:
   Follow this guide to setup Heroku in the project: Heroku Setup.

6. Run the following commands
   python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic

7. Now load the entries in Company model into the database
   python manage.py loaddata market/fixtures/market.json