larsbadke/stock-faker

Stock-Faker is a PHP library that generates fake stock data for you.

dev-master 2016-08-10 09:42 UTC

Requires

• php: ^5.3.3|^7.0
• fzaninotto/faker: ^1.6
• larsbadke/stock-simulator: ^0.2.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.0

MIT

• Lars Badke

• faker
• fixtures
• data
• stock

README

Stock-Faker is a PHP library that generates stock fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, Stock-Faker is for you.

Stock-Faker requires PHP >= 5.3.3.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Basic Usage
• License

Installation

composer require larsbadke/stock-faker

Basic Usage

Use StockFaker\Factory::create() to create and initialize Stock-Faker, now you can generate data by accessing properties named after the type of data you want.

<?php

// use the factory to create a StockFaker instance
$stock = StockFaker\Factory::create();

echo $stock->name;
// "Predovic LLC"
    
echo $stock->isin;
// "US0378331005"

echo $stock->close;
// '18.45'

echo $stock->open;
// "18.02"

echo $stock->low;
// '17.65'

echo $stock->high;
// "18.92" 

Stock key figures

<?php

$stock = StockFaker\Factory::create();

echo $stock->variance;
// 4.56

echo $stock->mu;
// 3.45

Simulate stock movements

Single movement

<?php

$stock = StockFaker\Factory::create();

echo $stock->close;
// "54.45"

$stock->next();

echo $stock->close;
// "55.45"

Complete movement like an impulse or a trend

<?php

$stock = StockFaker\Factory::create();


for($i=0; $i<70; $i++){

    echo $stock->close;

    $stock->next();
}

// Generates random stock data

// 131.3 
// 132.68 
// 133.4 
// 134.45 
// 136.26 
// 137.89 
// 138.16 
// 138.87 
// 140.28 
// 142.38 
// ...

Manipulate drift and volatility

<?php

$stock = StockFaker\Factory::create();

$stock->drift(0.01);

$stock->volatility(0.1);

for($i=0;$i<20;$i++){

    echo $stock->close.'<br>';

    $stock->next();
}

License

Stock-Faker is released under the MIT Licence. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.