VolaTrade - Helps DayTrade on Volatility

1.0 Problem Statement
    Create an interactive real-time stock market analysis tool,
    which continuously presents user with opportunities to buy
    into detected trends, and automates all parts of the process,
    freeing the user only to make decisions.

    Volatility Trading:
    Market volatility (short term ups and downs) is the basis of
    most market Daytrading. Due to the easy availablity of online
    brokerage accounts, their are many people attempting to identify
    and capitalize on short term price trends. There are in fact
    hundreds of books written on strategies for daytrading, some of
    which will be worth implementing in this program (although
    most are of course snake oil for the gullible...)

    Market as Sampled Signal:
    For every option traded on a market there is a symbol, and 
    the basic data associated with that symbol is the last price
    for which shares of that symbol were traded. If samples are taken
    of the price at discreet constant units of time, then the
    resulting price history can be viewed as a sampled waveform,
    and any sort of mathematical analysis that hits your fancy for
    finding patterns in waveforms can be employed on that waveform.
    The Sampling rate of this program will be limited by how
    complicated the currently selected analysis is, how many samples
    are being acquired between analyses (which run in a separate
    thread from fetching), and how many options are being analyzed
    at once.

Users
    The whole Daytrading market

Functional Requirements
    The Interface should include
	- Ability to select online market data source
        - Ability to select analysis technique module, with
	  detailed text explaining how it works
        - Ability to acquire list of all symbols in desired
          market, and then select deselect them from a list
          for analysis
        - Ability to group symbols for modules that work
          on pairs or groups
        - Ability to manage positions and cash for you,
          showing all percentages for each trade
    Once the analysis starts:
        - Visual feedback on what is happening (hilight current
          symbol for example)
        - Dialogue box offeres a list of opportunities, for
              each stock displaying:
              * symbol
              * annotated graph showing which points were noticed,
                any smoothing or filtering, and an explanation
                of what the analysis is predicting (ie how long
                to hold)
              * option to buy or pass
        - Dialogue box for all positions that are going bad
              * symbol
              * size of investment and loss, etc
              * option to sell at displayed loss or hold
        - Dialogue box for all positions that analysis thinks are done
              * symbol
              * size of investment and gain, etc
              * option to sell now, sell at first downturn, or
                hold in permament box and remove from further 
                analysis
    Modules
        The first one can be based on looking for stocks that have
        a stable period of oscilation (a temporary state of course)
        and to recommend buy in at the bottom of the next period
           "Stability Indexing" we can call it

Priorities
    1) Must be able to get list of stocks from a market source, and
       start getting real time limited-history sampling of the data
    2) Must be able to click from list to get info on stock, with
       graph showing data, smoothed data with infection points and
       periods, and other info
    3) Cash position, stock position interface
    4) Opportunity dialogs, pretend to be really buying and selling
       keep track of positions and statistics
    5) (version 2?) Connect to a real broker and play for
       real, even if its a "game" broker like yahoo stock game