Read stock data from file and write all local extrema found in data. Calculate simple moving average and write local extreme of the averaged data to give a more general idea of the highs and lows of the stock. Intended to be used in tandem with micrososft excel. Project is a Microsoft Visual Studio C++ solution.
How to use:
Download excel file containing relevant stock data from http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/historical-quotes.aspx
Copy data from the excel file into the "data.txt" file found in the "StockAnalysis" folder. Please copy every column of data as well as the column names (date, low, high, etc).
Data file should look something like this:
date close volume open high low
2018-01-05 0.235 104309 0.2294 0.261 0.22 2018-01-04 0.2213 257935 0.299 0.299 0.2213 2018-01-03 0.2578 275061 0.234 0.2665 0.1865 2018-01-02 0.218 465736 0.3015 0.3015 0.2052 . . .
The data.txt file also already contains an example.
The program will ignore the first line in the file that contains anything. This is intended to be the line containing the column names.
Data definitions:
Volume refers to the total number of stock shares traded in the given day.
Close refers to the value of the stock when trading closed for that day while open refers to the value when trading opened.
High and low refer to the greatest and least price of the stock on that day.