Challenges
Background
- Financial & trading services
- Providing clients with:
- algorithmic trading on financial markets,
- various money and risk strategies,
- investment strategies applied to a certain account,
- flexibility and freedom of trade through various brokers.
Technology challenges
- Physically decentralized client environments
- with different strategies applied to certain remote setups.
- Multi-task user experience to manage everything in one place –
- accounts, funds, algo strategies,
- running strategies on different markets and stocks and securities.
- The core platform data server with –
- Centralized data collection –bids and asks, volumes, ticks, bars, etc.
- Live and archive data,
- Strategy test against historical data.
Analysis
Objectives
- General idea – build a platform proof of concept.
- Principle solution design brought by the V-Quant team.
- ISDK team involved to –
- Make a technology analysis and offer platform improvements,
- Develop UX design to ensure a multi-task user experience,
- Continue module development with its dedicated team.
Tasks
- Plan solution architecture in detail – core module and component design.
- Outline and describe principal use cases.
- UX concept – 5-10 main screens with key scenarios.
- Develop sketches in detail.
- User interface mockups (Figma) to provide final look-and-feel
- Sign in and user profile
- Client dashboards, environments, and markets to work with
- Strategy/market screen
- Money management & Equity
- Live animated mockups for key use-cases
Development
Solution architecture
- Stock/Market Data Server – storage of live and historical data.
- System cores:
- Database + wrapping REST API services
- Servers with Algo-strategy plus remote API services
- Client services:
- Asp.Net Core web application / services,
- Client browser front-end.
Front-end
Result
Project result
- Interactive proof of concept developed.
- First-round development launch.
Client feedback
We’d known ISDK team and their CEO Dmitry earlier and decided to involve them in both activities. As a result, the website was developed and launched quickly; we appreciate ISDK’s work pace and creativity of UI designers.
Yury Mikhailov, Founder of Victoria Quant Ltd
