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Individually, each of us put in around 45 hours of work to this project. 
At the beginning of our journey, we were planning on using a preexisting 
OCAML trading engine from a library that we had found online. This meant that
most of our effort would be put into developing algorithms to write on top of 
the preexisting engine. However, we found out later that the library had not
been maintained for a few years, and there were major issues that would not 
allow us to use it. Our solution was to build a mock trading platform; a 
platform that would allow us to buy and sell stocks, however not using real 
money. In order to do this, we needed to learn about webscraping and also needed
to implement libraries and recent topics from class that we had never used 
in a project before. Examples of this were the Cohttp library that we used for 
pulling html, the lambdasoup library that we used to parse the html, and Jane
Street's Core library that had a few quirks that required a bit of a learning 
curve (although it was pretty similar to Stdlib). We also used a few callbacks
while pulling html from servers, which is a relatively new topic from class. 
While the LOC count is close to or maybe a little above the minimum for the 
project, we believe that the complexity and creativity of this project 
portrays the hard work that both of us put in as well as the passion we had for
building it. We also achieved everything that we had set out to make in our 
project proposal, despite the setbacks mentioned above. While the LOC count
might not be tremendous, building the engine on which we were able to write the 
algorithms was one of the most challenging projects either of us has ever 
undertaken. We hope you will take this under consideration when grading the 
complexity.