Both of you are right in the fact that this can't be an easy thing to do and can be quite unpreditictable. The concept I'm going after is to create a "game" out of the chaos.

If I can get the basic structure so that it can constantly get updated prices, then comes the logic that tracks price changes and decides to buy or sell.

Several of my friends are going to create their own logic for the program to tell it when to buy or sell. We'll track these programs for several weeks and compare our results. The idea is that we might stumble (I doubt it!) upon a simple system that would work over a large period of time. The testing would probably take year.

This is just a test and kind of a crazy contest for us to try. I'm sure the results will be that it is truly impossible. Although if we do figure something out, we would use it ourselves. Marketing it for others would probably make it useless.

What do you think?