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Depending on your goals, Itransition can implement standalone modules or build custom, full-featured trading platforms from scratch. Explore our range of stock market software development services and the best practices to streamline the adoption of these fintech solutions.
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 needs of your organization and customer base.
Web trading platforms
We create online trading platforms accessible via web browsers and enabling users to monitor stock prices, place orders for financial products, track all positions executed, and automate operations via algorithmic trading features.
Mobile trading apps
Itransition delivers mobile trading applications for Android and iOS featuring an intuitive UI/UX design and 24/7 access to a full set of trading and investment functionalities for seamless trades on the go and real-time asset monitoring.
Our development team can build data analytics systems that enable investors and traders to perform fundamental and technical analysis, explore market sentiment and volatility, backtest investment strategies, and predict stock price trends.
Asset management
Our company creates solutions designed to help asset managers build, monitor, and rebalance model portfolios with features like financial data aggregation, stock tracking, position size calculators, and multi-custodian integration.
We develop smart contracts based on your chosen blockchain ecosystem to automatically execute financial transactions and ensure transparency and security via encrypted records shared across participants.
Itransition helps financial organizations implement blockchain technology in their trading operations to streamline transactions, facilitate portfolio tracking, and automate anti-money laundering and KYC processes.
Cryptocurrency trading platforms
Itranstions’ team develops crypto exchange and trading platforms that can be connected to third-party liquidity providers and equipped with high-throughput matching engines while fulfilling compliance requirements.
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Our stock trading expertise
Trading algorithms
Our team helps companies implement various trading algorithms (including machine learning and deep learning ones) for stock and cryptocurrency markets, enabling bias-free decision-making, operational cost savings, and trading automation.
- Cycles analysis and algorithms
- Trade execution algorithms
- Arbitrage opportunity identification
- Market making algorithms
Risk management
Itransition’s experts develop financial software solutions with specialized pre-trade control systems that help users mitigate risks through more accurate interactions while ensuring that latency requirements are met.
- Fat-finger error checks
- Fraud prevention
- Trade netting
- Customizable alert systems
Back-office automation
Itransition helps trading companies achieve maximum efficiency by automating various back-office tasks that involve user verification, commission calculation, data reconciliation, compliance, reporting, and other time-consuming processes.
- User verification/KYC
- Document management
- Accounting
- Regulatory, internal and client reporting
Market data integration
We integrate your solution with market intelligence platforms, data aggregators, and financial news feeds, enabling access to real-time and historical data, synchronization of brokerages’ portfolio across user accounts, and reliable data analysis based on verified information.
- API/ESB configuration
- Cloud-based integration
- Building vendor-agnostic architectures
- ETL pipelines
Client spotlight
Take a look at these success stories from Itransition’s extensive portfolio of trading-related development projects.
Must-have features of stock trading software
The feature set of a custom stock trading solution or forex or crypto trading platform can be fully personalized based on your business goals. Here are some essential functionalities you should prioritize.
Registration & login
Creating and accessing user accounts through various authentication options, such as passwords or pin codes
KYC
Verifying users’ actual identity and preventing fraud via ID and biometric checks or video selfie verification
User profile
Updating personal information, tracking trading activity, and selecting preferences for payments and notifications
Order execution
Issuing orders for buying and selling equities or automating the process via take-profit and other triggers
Payments
Enabling and processing transactions or deposits of funds to user accounts via payment gateways
Analytics
Keeping track of key market metrics (prices, volatility, risk quotient, etc.) to optimize trades and investments
Turning financial data sets into interactive charts, graphs, and visual reports to get an in-depth view of the market
Newsfeed
Reporting news such as IPOs and M&As from reputable sources to inform users on the latest market trends
Custom search
Searching for investment opportunities across stock and asset catalogs faster through personalized filters
Push notifications
Notifying users with custom messages and price, time, or option alerts for streamlined trading and communication
Monetization
Ensuring platform’s profitability via payment for order flow, fees, interests, subscription, and in-app ads
Streamline trading operations with Itransition’s solutions
AI-enhanced stock trading
Experienced in artificial intelligence and related technologies, Itransition can augment your solution with AI-powered capabilities to forecast market trends, automate trading operations, and provide your customers with a superior user experience.
Scheme title: AI adoption and impact on trading
Data source: refinitiv.com — The future of trading technology in 2024
Note: *Clearance/Settlement, middle-oce processing, performance optimization and quantitative models. Based on 107 respondents.
Drawing on historical data, social media sentiment, news, and current market trends, Itransition’s ML-powered solutions can forecast market fluctuations and upcoming scenarios, enabling better trading decisions. Our holistic ML and fintech expertise helps us adjust algorithms to highly volatile stock markets, ensuring that no trading signals are missed.
We help companies fight fraudsters and cyber criminals with ML algorithms for anomaly detection and data mining techniques to identify both known and new fraudulent trading strategies.
Whether it’s insider trading, churning, spoofing, wash trading, or other market manipulation techniques, advanced fraud detection systems will spot suspicious behavioral patterns and trigger proper measures.
Algorithmic & high-frequency trading
Itransition can equip your solution with algorithmic trading modules to rule out human bias in financial decision-making and perform trades faster. You can rely on artificial intelligence algorithms to monitor stock prices and automatically execute orders on your behalf based on extensive sets of preprogrammed rules.
Robo-advisors & chatbots
Itransition’s team enhances your stock trading platform with virtual assistants powered by NLP and designed to answer user queries, provide tailored financial advice, and quickly optimize clients' assets. Leverage smart bots to automate customer-facing operations and offer an interactive, hyper-personalized user experience, driving retention and engagement.
Stock trading development roadmap
Our team of fintech experts provides full-cycle custom trading software development services, guiding enterprises all the way through stock trading software adoption and beyond.
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Business analysis
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Design
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Development
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QA & testing
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Deployment & support
Types of trading platforms
Itransition develops custom stock trading platforms to meet the goals and requirements of different user bases, whether they’re private investors or professional traders operating in corporate scenarios.
Examples of commercial trading platforms:
- TradingView
- Binance
- eToro
- Coinbase
Proprietary platforms
Examples of proprietary trading platforms:
- FTMO
- Topstep
- SurgeTrader
- FundedNext
Trading software development costs
The cost of building a stock trading solution can range widely according to multiple factors. Itransition offers three engagement models with different pricing systems to fully meet the budget expectations and project requirements of different customers. Consult our experts for a more accurate estimate based on your specific scenario.
Cost factors
Cost factors
- Product architecture and functional scope (features, modules, UX/UI, etc.)
- Technology stack and third-party licenses, such as cloud-based tools and services
- Data and software integrations with external sources and other systems
- Data management tasks (data cleansing, annotation, transformation, and storage)
- Solution accuracy requirements, including AI model performance
- Team composition (project managers, business analysts, designers, back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.)
- Training, support, and maintenance initiatives, including updates and upgrades
Engagement models
Engagement models
- Dedicated team
Itransition provides a scalable team of selected developers for long-term collaboration with a flexible project scope. The price depends on the time spent to accomplish the required tasks.
- Time & material
We provide expert developers for a set fee. The final cost is based on the person-hours and materials spent on the project to best fit your changing requirements.
- Fixed-price
Itransition’s developers will join your project for a fixed price according to the defined scope, budget, and timeline.
FAQ
How long does it take to develop stock trading software?
Developing a stock trading solution from the ground up typically takes from 6 months and 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?
The team of experts involved usually includes a project manager, business analysts, UI/UX designers, front-end and back-end developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and support engineers. The project can also require more specific roles, such as AI engineers, depending on the software’s functionality.
How do you protect my stock trading software and data assets?
We design fintech solutions in full compliance with the main standards and regulations applicable to the financial industry, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, OWASP, and MISMO. 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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