For the course web application my task for a project sponsored by my professor Laurel Miller was to create a special purpose calculator. My special purpose calculator is a P/L (profit/loss) day calculator for the stock market. What you do is enter the ticker of your desired stock and then the current price, previous closing price, and the number of shares you have or wish to invest in. Why would anyone want to use it?, I’m a trading analyst, so I myself and anyone who is involved in the market would want to use this to analyze the performance of a stock if they wish to acquire it, for example, when doing market analysis on future stocks you wish to add to your portfolio by plugging in the calculator you get to see how it performed as if you were in a position that you already had it. This is very useful for market analysis and deciding if you want to buy it or not and also seeing how much you would have made or lost if you had it. Also if you had a stock at 10 shares and you wish to increase it you can plug in how much you would have
made that day with 15 or 20 shares to try and maximize ultimate portfolio gain.
