Algorithm Battle

Stock prices move up and down quickly and appear to be unpredictable.
If you were able to predict the price change for stocks, how would you maximize your profits?

Click anywhere in the chart to buy and/or sell a virtual stock.
Analyze your results using our simulated price chart.

Make sure to "buy low, sell high" to meet your target balance and maximize your profits.

Duration you own the stock

Duration you have an error e.g. insufficient funds

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JavaScript Console

Available Variables

API Functions

buy(stockID, time, quantity); // Buy the stock
sell(stockID, time, quantity); // Sell the stock
quote(stockID, time); // Get the stock price
reset(); // Start over

quantity is optional.
(Maximum possible value is automatically assigned.)

Example Code

for (var t = 0; t < T; t++) {

    // Find t for a lower price than t-1 and t+1
    if (t == 0 || quote(A, t - 1) > quote(A, t)) {
        if (t != T - 1 && quote(A, t) < quote(A, t + 1)) {
            buy(A, t); // Buy Stock A at t
        }
    }

    // Find t for a higher price than t-1 and t+1
    if (t != 0 && quote(A, t - 1) < quote(A, t)) {
        if (t == T - 1 || quote(A, t) > quote(A, t + 1)) {
            sell(A, t); // Sell Stock A at t
        }
    }

}

Try this example

Notes

1. You can use the browser's Developer Tools to call API functions.

2. Download stock prices in CSV format to use any programming language of your choice. In that case, write something like
print("buy(A, 123);")
to print out all trades and paste the output to the JavaScript console above.

3. You can change the random seed value to use a different set of stock proces.

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Automated Trading Results

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