diff --git a/backend/investmentportfolio/settings.py b/backend/investmentportfolio/settings.py
index 41d6820..07f7438 100644
--- a/backend/investmentportfolio/settings.py
+++ b/backend/investmentportfolio/settings.py
@@ -45,11 +45,10 @@
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'white_noise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
-    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
-    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
@@ -122,6 +121,10 @@
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/howto/static-files/
 
 STATIC_URL = 'static/'
+STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
+STATIC_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
+
+
 
 # Default primary key field type
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/settings/#default-auto-field
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b147bcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+appdirs==1.4.4
+asgiref==3.7.2
+backports.zoneinfo==0.2.1
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
+certifi==2020.11.8
+chardet==3.0.4
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+cycler==0.10.0
+Django==4.2.7
+django-cors-headers==4.3.1
+djangorestframework==3.14.0
+frozendict==2.3.8
+holidays==0.38
+html5lib==1.1
+idna==2.10
+kiwisolver==1.3.1
+lxml==4.9.3
+matplotlib==3.3.2
+multitasking==0.0.11
+numpy==1.24.4
+packaging==23.2
+panda==0.3.1
+pandas==2.0.3
+peewee==3.17.0
+Pillow==8.0.1
+plotly==4.12.0
+psycopg2==2.9.9
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
+pyparsing==2.4.7
+pytesseract==0.3.10
+python-dateutil==2.8.2
+pytz==2023.3.post1
+requests==2.31.0
+retrying==1.3.3
+six==1.15.0
+soupsieve==2.5
+sqlparse==0.4.4
+typing_extensions==4.8.0
+tzdata==2023.3
+urllib3==1.26.2
+webencodings==0.5.1
+whitenoise==6.6.0
+yfinance==0.2.32