Stock trading software development services

Stock trading software development services

Trading software we develop

Drawing on our expertise in financial software development, we deliver multiple types of trading systems, platforms, and mobile apps, addressing the unique business needs of your organization and customer base.

By application type

Web-based trading platforms

We create online trading platforms that enable users to execute trades, manage portfolios, and access market data and analysis via convenient web interfaces.

Mobile trading apps

Our team delivers native iOS and Android apps or cross-platform mobile trading solutions that provide on-the-go access to a full set of trading and investment functionalities and facilitate real-time asset monitoring.

By target audience

Commercial platforms

Our software engineers deliver platforms equipped with intuitive features, including real-time stock quotes, interactive charts, news feeds, and user guides and aimed at day traders, retail investors, and other users to help them buy, sell, and manage financial assets. We can deliver commercial trading tools that are either commission-free or require an account minimum and a certain number of monthly transactions defined by their terms and conditions.

Examples of commercial trading platforms:

  • TradingView
  • eToro
  • Trade Ideas
  • TradeStation
  • Coinbase
  • Webull
  • Binance
  • Robinhood
  • Interactive Brokers

Proprietary platforms

We build enterprise-grade custom trading platforms that facilitate specific trading activities of brokerages, banks, and other financial institutions, equipping them with innovative features to help their owners compete with other major players in the financial market.

Examples of proprietary trading platforms:

  • FTMO
  • Topstep
  • SurgeTrader
  • FundedNext

Core features of stock trading software

We deliver custom stock trading solutions with a feature set fully tailored to your business goals and end-users’ needs.

Identifying trading opportunities

Market intelligence

We integrate your solution with market data aggregators, stock screeners, and financial newsfeeds, providing users access to real-time and historical trading data and enabling the creation and use of technical indicators and reliable data analysis based on verified information.

We deliver data analytics capabilities that enable investors and active traders to perform fundamental and technical analysis, calculate financial ratios and metrics, explore market sentiment and volatility, backtest investment strategies, and predict stock price trends.

We integrate stock trading software with visualization platforms and advanced charting and drawing tools that help turn financial and trading data sets into dashboards, interactive charts, graphs, and visual reports, providing an in-depth market view.

Experience personalization

Our trading applications enable highly personalized user experiences through push notifications, including custom messages and alerts on price, time, or options for streamlined trading services, extensive search filters, and advanced recommendation engines, providing users with tailored in-app content like market news or know-how articles for beginner stock traders.

Streamlining trading activities

Asset management

Our company creates solutions to help asset and wealth managers build, monitor, and rebalance model portfolios, make informed decisions based on aggregated financial and asset data, and automate trading operations, as well as provide investment journaling capabilities to keep track of trades and rationales behind them.

Order execution & payments

Our stock trading systems enable transactions and fund deposits into user accounts through payment gateways, facilitate the placement of buy and sell orders for stocks, bonds, options, and ETFs, or automate the execution process using take-profit and stop-loss orders, as well as other triggers.

Trading algorithms

We help companies implement trading algorithms enabling objective decision-making and trading automation, including algorithms for cycle analysis, arbitrage opportunity identification, trades execution, trading strategies optimization, and liquid market making algorithms.

Automating back-office operations & ensuring security

Back-office automation

Our experts help trading companies achieve maximum efficiency by automating various back-office tasks, such as user verification and KYC, commission calculation, data reconciliation, compliance management, reporting, accounting, and other time-consuming processes.

Risk management

Itransition’s team equips trading software solutions with specialized pre-trade control systems that help users mitigate risks. We enable fat-finger error checks, paper trading, trade netting, fraud prevention, and customizable risk alert systems.

Advanced user authentication & verification

We implement multiple mechanisms for new user identity verification, like ID and biometric checks, and video verification, to help streamline KYC processes. We also equip trading software with various user authentication options to protect access to brokerage accounts, such as MFA, fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, passwords, and PIN codes.

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Client spotlight

Explore success stories from Itransition’s extensive portfolio of trading-related app development projects.

Investment portfolio management platform

$20+ bn

managed by users

Itransition developed a flagship stock trading product powered by bespoke AI algorithms and featuring web, desktop, and mobile applications for TradeSmith, a US stock market research tools provider. The platform helps individual investors make informed decisions and optimize their portfolios using features like real-time market data analysis, investment monitoring, and risk alerts.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform

5+ connections

with major Bitcoin exchanges

Our team created a trading platform that connects multiple cryptocurrency exchanges, enabling users to trade virtual currencies at the best rates from a single interface. The solution features automated order creation based on flexible trigger criteria, real-time currency price monitoring, financial statistics aggregation, and reporting.

Our trading platform development services

Itransition offers a full scope of trading platform software development services to help customers design, build, modernize, integrate, and support solutions with solid functionality to facilitate different user activities, like options trading and day trading.

Trading software we develop

Our consultants study your business needs and operations, conceptualize your trading solution, including the architecture, tech stack, and monetization options, and provide advisory services throughout the implementation project, ensuring successful solution delivery and adoption.

We build feature-rich stock trading software solutions with a focus on user convenience, data security, and compliance. Based on your business needs, we equip them with solid trading and analytics capabilities, including those powered by AI, ML, data analytics, or blockchain.

We analyze outdated or underperforming stock trading platforms to detect areas for improvement and then implement necessary changes, including rearchitecting the software, developing new features, integrating it with new data sources or third-party solutions, or ensuring software compliance with new regulations.

Our engineers can set up integrations between a stock trading system and business process management software, market data aggregators, financial media, and other platforms to ensure data consistency and accuracy across the company’s IT ecosystem and integration of necessary market data for in-depth analytics.

Post-implementation, we are ready to provide L1, L2, and L3 support covering all your needs, including software functionality upgrades and management of software availability, performance, and security.

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Our tech stack

We choose the optimal tools for each stock exchange software development project, taking into account the desired functional scope, performance and scalability requirements, and budget limitations.

  • MicrosoftNetJavaPythonNodePhp

    Languages
  • HtmlCssJs
    JavaScript frameworks
  • AngularReactLogoMeteorVueNextEmber

  • IosAndroidXamarinCordovaPwaReactNative FlutterIonic

  • ElectronCppMicrosoftWpfObjectiveCSwift

    SQL
  • MySqlServerMySqlSqlOraclePostgreSql
    NoSQL
  • CassandraHiveApacheNifiMongoDbCouchDb

    AWS
  • AwsS3AwsRedShiftAwsDynamodbAwsDocumentdbAwsRdsAwsElasticCache
    Azure
  • AzureLakeAnalyticsAzureStorageBlogAzureCosmosdbAzureSynapseAzureKinectAzureRtos

  • SapSalesforceSharePointMicrosoftFinanceMicrosoftCloudPowerBISapHybris

  • PaypalStripeCheckoutScrillAmazonPayBlueSnapBrainTreeAuthorizeNetWepayBluePay

    Containerization
  • DockerKubernetesOpenShiftMesos
    Automation
  • AnsiblePuppetChefSaltstackTerraformParker
    CI/CD tools
  • AwsToolsAzureDevopsGoogleDevelopersJenkins

Advanced technologies for stock trading

Artificial intelligence

Itransition augments solutions with artificial intelligence to help companies better automate stock trading operations and introduce competitive analytics capabilities.

How has AI improved your business operations? (all respondents)

Scheme title: AI benefits in financial services

Data source: nvidia.com — State of AI in Financial Services: 2023 Trends Survey Report

Top AI use cases in financial services (excluding China)

Scheme title: Popular AI use cases in financial services

Data source: nvidia.com — State of AI in Financial Services: 2023 Trends Survey Report

We deliver machine learning-powered analytics solutions that forecast market fluctuations and upcoming scenarios based on historical and real-time market data, social media sentiment, news, and current market trends, enabling better trading decisions.

Algorithmic & high-frequency trading

We equip stock trading solutions with algorithmic trading modules that monitor stock prices and automatically execute orders on your behalf based on preprogrammed rules, helping eliminate human bias in financial decision-making and perform trades faster.

We help trading companies thwart fraudsters and cybercriminals by implementing tools that use data mining and ML algorithms for anomaly detection in their stock trading software, allowing for quick identification of both known and new fraudulent strategies.

Whether it’s insider trading, churning, spoofing, wash trading, or other market manipulation techniques, our advanced fraud detection tools can spot suspicious behavior and trigger proper response measures.

Robo-advisors & chatbots

Our team enhances your stock trading platform with virtual assistants powered by NLP that answer user questions, provide tailored financial advice, and quickly optimize clients' assets.

We can also implement smart bots into stock trading platforms to offer interactive, hyper-personalized customer support, driving user retention and engagement.

Blockchain

Itransition helps financial organizations implement blockchain technology in their trading operations to streamline transactions, enable operations with cryptocurrencies, facilitate portfolio tracking, and automate KYC processes.

We develop apps with smart contracts, enabling the automatic execution of financial transactions and ensuring their transparency and security through encrypted, shared records among participants.

Cryptocurrency trading

Our team builds crypto exchange and trading platforms facilitating fast and secure cryptocurrency operations. We can also connect these solutions to third-party liquidity providers and equip them with high-throughput matching engines to enhance their liquidity, transaction speed, and scalability and provide a broader range of trading options.

Stock trading software development process

Our fintech experts provide full-cycle custom trading software development services, guiding enterprises all the way through stock trading software adoption and beyond.

1

Business analysis & planning

Analyze the company’s business processes, workflows, and technology environment

Elicit the customer’s short-term and long-term business goals, as well as end-user needs and expectations

Elaborate the solution’s functional and non-functional requirements

Set up a roadmap defining the project's scope, budget deliverables, and timeframes

Conduct project risk assessment and create a risk mitigation plan

2

Design

Design user experience and user-friendly interfaces

Define software architecture, features, and integrations

Select an optimal tech stack

Deliver a PoC to verify the project’s feasibility, scalability, and financial viability

3

Development

Perform front-end and back-end development

For AI-based application development, carry out data pre-processing, modeling, and AI model integration into the solution

Set up platform integrations via pre-built connectors, APIs, or ESB

4

QA & testing

Perform functional, performance, compatibility, and security tests

Assess platform usability with focus groups

Address potential bugs and other issues affecting software components

5

Deployment & support

Deploy the solution to the target environment

Provide product demoing, user training, and support

Carry out ongoing performance monitoring and software maintenance

Implement regular software upgrades and functional improvements

Trading software development costs

Product architecture and functional scope (features, modules, UX/UI, etc.)

Technology stack and third-party licenses for tools and services used for trading software development

Data and software integrations with external sources and other systems

Data management mechanisms (data cleansing, annotation, transformation, and storage)

Team size and composition (project managers, business analysts, designers, back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.)

Post-development costs, including training, customer support, and maintenance initiatives, including updates and upgrades

Cost factors

FAQ

How long does it take to develop stock trading software?

Developing a stock trading solution from the ground up typically takes 6 months or longer. This time frame can vary based on project complexity, software features, team composition, and other factors.

What’s the team composition of a trading software development project?

Such a team usually includes a project manager, business analysts, UI/UX designers, front-end and back-end developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and, if required, support specialists. The project can also require subject matter experts with specific expertise, such as AI or blockchain, depending on the software’s planned functionality.

How do you protect my stock trading software and data assets?

We design fintech solutions that fully comply with the main standards and regulations applicable to the trading industry, such as GDPR, DORA, and PCI DSS. We also equip your software with solid cyber security features ranging from role-based access management to user activity monitoring and encrypted data exchange.

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