Financial Market Simulation Documentation

Date:      22 December '2010
Version:           v1.4
 

Contents

• Introduction

• FAQ

• Version history

• Plans for next release

• Experiment guide

Introduction

This section of documentation is intended for end-users of FIMAS. The ones that just wanna press a button and see a pretty picture :)

FAQ

[Q] How to use this application:

See the Experiment guide further on.

[Q] Are dividends added to traders' accounts?

Yes, by default, they are added monthly, according to the issuing company's settings.

[Q] Can the same company offer its shares on different markets?

Theoretically, yes, since Market is an agent too. Practically, this scenario has not yet been tested because ...two markets are two times harder to set up and analyze.

[Q] What kind of requests can market expect from a broker?

Currently any request that traders supports, including market, stop and limit orders.

 

[Q] It does not do anything cool.

Yep, but it took me 4 full months just to set it up to work the way it does. The interface of the FMS and the whole transaction system was *very* hard to implement. Work is still in progress, several years since the start of the project.

 

[Q] Why is is so damn slow?? I have a 16-Core CPU and even Crysis runs at 500 FPS!

Well, because it's precise and sends "update" signals to every living creature every 3 seconds by default. Want to make it faster - open the "Property Editor", select "World" object (it is selected by default), find "UpdatePeriod" value and change it to ...let's say 15 seconds. Notice the speed difference =)

 

[Q] Will there be further versions?
 

Definitely yes. Just stay tuned!

 

[Q] Can I contact you?
 

Sure! I would definitely want to hear from you, because it would mean that I'm not alone with this project! Feel free to ask any question you want as long as it's not something like "where do you get your porn?" - I'm not giving away such precious information ;)
 

Version history

For the latest version of "Financial Market Simulation" visit http://fimas.sf.net .

Plans for next release

1. I don't know when the next release is going to be, but it will surely contain some stuff from this list.
    

Experiment guide

1. Experiment Guide (full)
Date:          August '2009
Language:   Russian
Description: A rather full guide on how the use the application along with an explanation some of the the experiments.
Online version or download in an archive

2. Experiment Guide (short)
Date:          January '2008
Language:   English
Description: A short guide on how the use the application along with an explanation some of the the experiments.
Online version or download in an archive

3. Using scenarios QuickStart:
1) Start the application
2) Choose File->Open from the menu. From there open any demo project in the \Projects\ directory.
3) Start the simulation ("Controls" menu) and analyze different statistical data on the opened chart editors.

4. Manually creating scenarios QuickStart:


Experiment 1:

1) Start the application.
2) Open the Scenario editor window ("Editors" menu)
3) Choose FundamentalTraders.fms from the Listbox
4) Press the "Apply" button and then finally start the simulation ("Controls" menu)
5) Open an array analyzer and select "Edit Graph - Series - Add - Simple Line" 2 times.
6) Do The same for another array analyzer.
7) Open the "Script Editors" (and may be the the "Statistics" tab if you want to) for both of them.
8) Select presets "CurrentSharePrice.fms" for one of them and "CurrentShareSpread.fms" for another, and then press "Apply" in the "Script Editor".
9) Wait some 30sec-5 min then open Custom Script "xxx.fms" (tab near the scenario editor) and see how thing turn around.
10) Enjoy!


Experiment 2:

1) Start the application.
2) Open the Scenario editor window ("Editors" menu)
3) Choose "RiskAndSpread.fms" from the Listbox
4) Press the "Apply" button and then finally start the simulation ("Controls" menu)
4) Press the "Apply" button and then finally start the simulation ("Controls" menu)
5) Open an array analyzer and select "Edit Graph - Series - Add - Simple Line" 2 times.
6) Do The same for another array analyzer
7) Select presets "CurrentSharePrice.fms" and "CurrentShareSpread.fms" for them and press "Apply".

Then repeat this experiment changing these values in the Scenario editor:
«MIN_RANDOM_TRADER_RISK_AMOUNT» 0.10
«MAX_RANDOM_TRADER_RISK_AMOUNT» 0.40

Note the difference.


Note: If you want to change something in "procedure DoMarketInitialize", you will have to reset the simulation for the changes to take effect.