The S&P 500 is a stock market index containing the stocks of 500 large corporations. Your task is to display market performance of a selected list of S&P 500 corporations.
Part 1: Write a script to perform the following
Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Adj Close
Display the following data:
The difference between the High and Low values and difference between Open and Close values of each date.
The greatest and smallest difference between High and Low values in the 3rd quarter.
The greatest and smallest difference between Open and Close values in the 3rd quarter.
Part 2
Create a webpage that displays a drop-down menu to select a stock symbol. The possible values are AAPL (Appel), ADBE (Adobe), AMZN (Amozon), CSCO (Cisco), DELL, FB (Facebook), GOOG (Google), INTC (Intel), MSFT (Microsoft), NVDA (NVIDIA), ORCL (Oracle), QCOM, (Qualcom), and YHOO (Yhaoo).
Include a submit button to send the selected stock symbol to a script. The script should read the appropriate data file and display the same information as in part 1 for the selected stock symbol.
Following is a list of data files:
AAPL http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/AAPL.csv
ADBE http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/ADBE.csv
CSCO http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/CSCO.csv
DELL http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/DELL.csv
FB http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/FB.csv
GOOG http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/GOOG.csv
INTC http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/INTC.csv
MSFT http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/MSFT.csv
ORCL http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/ORCL.csv
QCOM http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/QCOM.csv
YHOO http://cs.uww.edu/data/stocks/YHOO.csv
Hint: In part 1, use a function that takes a file name as input and then displays the required data. Then the same function can be used to complete part 2.