I have several questions about how to make a stock market simulation. I found a website called quantopedia that has data that includes minute by minute stock trading data. It is in a python database I believe. I would like to make a stock market simulation in which a player can go to their computer in the video game world and place trades. However, I do not know if I am allowed to do this with quantopedia’s data. I also would not mind using a pre-made solution to this. By the way the computer is a computer based in the video game, not the actual computer of the player. How would I go about doing this?
For starters, their Terms of Service says you can’t reproduce or distribute anything from their site without express written permission. I imagine this would be the case with just about any online source of real trading data. One of my first programming jobs back in the late 80s was writing real-time market graphing and analysis tools; they’re all pretty tight with their licensing.
If I were you I’d probably be thinking about faking the data instead.