Portfolio: CityIndex - EffectiveSoft

Customer

City Index is one of the world leaders in Spread Betting, Contracts for Difference (CFDs), and margined Foreign Exchange (FX). Its parent company, GAIN Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE: GCAP), is one of the largest retail and institutional trading providers globally. City Index clients have access to 12,000+ markets to choose from across Forex, Indices, Shares, and Commodities. The company’s headquarters is in London with offices in Australia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

The customer turned to EffectiveSoft to develop a Windows-based downloadable trading platform together with trading applications for mobile devices. The main requirements were high speed, excellent performance, and continuous running without interruptions.

Solution

Our team and the customer jointly worked out a detailed specification with design sketches of the future applications. To deliver a distinct advantage over other providers, the mobile apps were developed in parallel with the Windows-based trading platform.

The downloadable desktop trading application, AT Pro, is intended for experienced users interested in powerful analysis tools, a higher speed and advanced charts. Thanks to the optimized RAM usage, the application can work for weeks without shutting down.

The mobile trading application, City Trading™, is designed for iOS- and Android-based devices and provides full and secure access to the trading accounts on the phones and tablets. The clients can trade directly through charts and make better-informed decisions irrespective of where they are.

The City Trading™ mobile application became Financial Times Innovation of the Year in 2010 and was awarded the title “Best Mobile Trading Platform” at the MoneyAM Online Finance Awards two years in a row in 2010 and 2011.

Highlights

The trading application enables clients to monitor the changes on the volatile financial markets and perform various actions in the personal account, such as:

Checking the latest prices and market movements
Selecting the market to trade
Viewing market trends and indicators
Using a trade ticket to sell and buy
Opening and closing positions
Monitoring positions via a positions chart
Keeping up with the financial news thanks to the live Reuters news feed and economic calendar

Stack

Java, Android SDK, JSON, LightStreamer, KSOAP, Gradle, Espresso, JUnit, Firebase, FCM, Google Analytics, Android Studio, Git
Objective-C 2.0, iPhone, Apple Xcode 3.1, iPhone SDK 2.2.1, iPhone SDK 3.0, iPhone SDK 3.1, Aspen Simulator
Tools: MS Visual studio 2017, JetBrains Rider, Team City,dotCover, dotTrace
Technologies: .NET 4.5, WPF, Linq, WCF, NUnit, Prism, Google Analytics, HockeyApp, Tasks, lightstreamer