CAT: misc
Stock App Design
Disclaimer, philosophy
![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/efficiency_2x.png)
First of all, this isn't a magic tool to beat the market. We firmly believe the final conclusion should be drawn by the user whose brain power holds the edge over the market, if ever.
The purpose of this tool is to assemble information in a fashion to assist the user process these information more efficiently by liberating his/her from tedious, but necessary, steps such as data collection, ratio computation, drawing a line graph, etc., than without such a helper. Thus with this tool, the user could focus onto creating value instead of being bogged down by less value-added works.
Audience & goals
This application is written for users who have interest in the stock market, in particular, data analysis of the stock data. In my experience, there are five levels of users:
Type | Tool | Audience |
---|---|---|
1 | apps & websites | Satisfied with the published info |
2 | Excel | Think they have some data/info analysis edge |
3 | Excel + VBA | Automate routine computation and data assembly |
4 | Script or lib | Programmer who gained more computation power … |