Stock Transaction Program

Last month Joe purchased some stock in Acme Software, Inc. Here are the details of the purchase:

The number of shares that Joe purchased was 1,000.
When Joe purchased the stock, he paid $32.87 per share.
Joe paid his stockbroker a commission that amounted to 2 percent of the amount he paid for the stock.

Two weeks later Joe sold the stock. Here are the details of the sale:

The number of shares that Joe sold was 1,000.
He sold the stock for $33.92 per share.
He paid his stockbroker another commission that amounted to 2 percent of the amount he received for the stock.

Write a program that displays the following information:

The amount of money Joe paid for the stock.
The amount of commission Joe paid his broker when he bought the stock.
The amount that Joe sold the stock for.
The amount of commission Joe paid his broker when he sold the stock.
Display the amount of money that Joe had left when he sold the stock and paid his broker (both times). If this amount is positive, then Joe made a profit. If the amount is negative, then Joe lost money.

Solution

print(“Last month Joe purchased some stock in Acme Software, Inc”)

print(“********details of the purchased*******”)

noOfShare = 1000

print(“The number of shares that Joe purchased :”,noOfShare)

paidPerShare = 32.87

print(“he paid $”+str(paidPerShare),” per share”)

paidOnShares = noOfShare * paidPerShare

print(“total amount was paid by Joe on 1000 shares was : $”+ \

str(format(paidOnShares ,’.2f’)))

brokerCommission1 = paidOnShares * .02

print(“amount of commission joe paid when he bought the stock was : $” + \

str(format(brokerCommission1 , ‘,.2f’)))

print()

print(“Two weeks later Joe sold the stock”)

print(“********details of the sale*******”)

noOfShareSold = 1000

print(“The number of shares that Joe sold was :”,noOfShareSold)

soldPerShare = 33.92

print(“he sold $”+str(soldPerShare),”per share”)

totalAmountSold = noOfShareSold * soldPerShare

print(“total amount was sold by Joe on 1000 shares was : $”+ \

str(format(totalAmountSold ,’.2f’)))

brokerCommission2 = totalAmountSold * .02

print(“amount of commission joe paid when he sold the stock was : $” + \

str(format(brokerCommission2 , ‘,.2f’)))

balanceAmount = totalAmountSold – ( paidOnShares + \

brokerCommission1 + brokerCommission2 )

print(“Amount of money Joe has left : $”+str(format(balanceAmount , ‘,.2f’)))

if(balanceAmount > 0):

print(“Joe made a profit”)

else:

print(“Joe lost his money “)