AKgameworks
08-22-2008, 09:19 PM
I'm not actually much of a trader, about 10 years ago I clerked on the floor of the CME so I'm familiar with the terminology but that's about it.
Recently I've been developing brower based games with Flash. My most recent is a daytrading simulation:
http://alaskagameworks.com/?p=74
I'm posting here hoping to get some feedback. Flash-game players are not necessarily knowledgeable about markets... I'm already planning to improve the interface, but:
- Are my prices moving (sort of) realistically? They're not exactly random-- I use my random number generator to generate orders, and those orders are matched by a clearinghouse function. I keep the order book rather thin in order to ensure the price can move, but that's about the limit of what I've done to force behavior.
- Is it important to implement things like OCOs and Stop limits?
- Do I need to add time compression? There's some issues with exactly how fast flash runs that make me not want to do this... but if I need to I will?
- I know I need to add some analytics, at least moving averages... what other analytics should I add?
Thanks in advance,
-Tony
Recently I've been developing brower based games with Flash. My most recent is a daytrading simulation:
http://alaskagameworks.com/?p=74
I'm posting here hoping to get some feedback. Flash-game players are not necessarily knowledgeable about markets... I'm already planning to improve the interface, but:
- Are my prices moving (sort of) realistically? They're not exactly random-- I use my random number generator to generate orders, and those orders are matched by a clearinghouse function. I keep the order book rather thin in order to ensure the price can move, but that's about the limit of what I've done to force behavior.
- Is it important to implement things like OCOs and Stop limits?
- Do I need to add time compression? There's some issues with exactly how fast flash runs that make me not want to do this... but if I need to I will?
- I know I need to add some analytics, at least moving averages... what other analytics should I add?
Thanks in advance,
-Tony