Portfolio Investment in Focus of Using Agent in Stock Trading Environment

Portfolio Investment in Focus of Using Agent in Stock Trading Environment is the
collaboration between stock trading application and agent program. It can be regard as
the value added process to the stock trading system. The rationale to embedded agent
program in the system is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the system. The
agent program that exists in the application has been programmed to do certain tasks
such as to buy and sell stocks on behalf of trader. The agent is performing their job
based on the data or value that defines by user. The main reason to develop the
application that using agent is because realizing the fact that people in this modern
society always concern about the standard of living. They want everything around them
to be automated. In other word, we can say that people want computer to work for them.
There are two objectives that have been set for this project. The first objective is
performing small scale of study regarding the agent and the second objective is to
develop simple web site regarding stock trading application using agent. To ensure both
of the objectives can be achieved, the author has set the scope of study at the planning
phase of the project. Basically, there are three scope of study that has been defined. The
first one is to study about the agent such as it environment, functionalities and
characteristics. The second scope is study about the concept of system remoteness.
System remoteness means, user can access the system from their remote location via
internet or World Wide Web (www) technology. The final scope of study is to study
about current stock simulator such as Investopedia simulator. The reason is to get some
idea for system design and implementation. For the methodology, the Rapid application
Development (RAD) has been employed. The methodology has been chosen because it
is effective and suitable for short duration project. It was designed for developer and
user to join together and work intensively toward their goal. For Rapid Application
Development methodology, the system is basically developed by using prototype.
Developing system using prototype can shorten the development time and the final
product of the project is early visible. By using the RAD methodology, the stock trading
system using agent is able to be completed within the time allocated.
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