Simple stock market simulation

[mike3411]

I'm working a project for an econ class, and we'd like to set up a simple stock market and trading system. I think I can do this with PHP and SQL, but someone has probably made something similar in the past, and I'd like to do as little actual coding as possible.

Does anyone know of any open source / freeware projects that work on simple stock simulations like this? Each trader is going to be an actual person in the class, and be able to buy / sell shares. All the software I've found so far is more like general market analysis and prediction, and I haven't been able to locate anything like what I'm looking for.

Any help would be appreciated, I would think other academic people have similar setups to demonstrate how a market works, but I haven't found anything that I can use or is open source.

 

[cw42]

way back in HS we used virtualstockexchange.com. There's a ton of others, just google it.

 

[mike3411]

That works for pretend trading on an existing exchange, but for the purpose of this experiment the market will be very small, consisting of only the people in our group, and all the stocks are custom things related to our project.

Basically we just need the software NASDAQ or something use to do trades, but in really simple version. These systems are standard so I would assume there is an open source implementation, but I haven't found anything.

 

[jkresh]

Look for something that other econ students have done (some people in a software engineering class I was in did something similar a few years ago but I don't have their contact info and I don't think they open sourced it).