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The stock system consists of 2 key components: the interface component and the system component. The interface component serves as the front end of the system and this is the portion that the user will see and interact with. The system component is the backend of the system that will read in stock price information from either a comma delimited text file (csv format) or an xml file. The system component is responsible for retrieving and formatting the data so that it can easily be used by the interface. The core of development is in dealing with the front end of the system. User centered design as noted in Soderston and Rauch [7] is used to provide information about the uses and their normal habits, while task centered design as noted in Lewsis and Rieman [4] is used to provide information on the main (primary)