Could somebody help me with stock market app question?

[Paul Johnson]

I have a student who wants to do a model of a stock market in which
there are some agents who invest on the basis of price trends (these are
so-called technicians) and some invest on the basis of information about
the company.  I know there is a Swarm app from the old days called ASM. 
The last time I looked at ASM, it was full of calloc/mallocs and other C
code that was needed at the time because Swarm was still in its
infancy.  Before I turn a student loose on that, I would have to spend
quite a bit of effort to get rid of that C stuff and turn it into swarm
stuff.

That might be a useful exercise for me, because ASM is certainly worth
bringing up-to-date. However, I have a feeling this has been done
already.

What is the Swarm-state-of-the-art in stock market modeling?  Is Swarm a
part of the picture?  At Swarmfest, Benedikt S. was telling me that some
folks in our community had been writing market models, and if any of
them can share their code with me, my student will be grateful.

One problem I see with ASM is that the market is one stock, right?  It
seems to me the essence of a real life stock market is the opportunity
to move money from one company to another...

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