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Trading on Iphone Application – Case Study & Video.

Case Study – Trading on Iphone

IMPORTANT
Due to governing confidentiality agreement, we have refrained from disclosing actual Client and Solution Name. These have been changed appropriately, to more Generic Names and Nomenclatures.

COMPANY

The Company was a Broker Company is United States providing FOREX Trading services to its customers. The Company wanted to develop a Trading platform for IPhone and be able to provide it to their customers.

INDUSTRY
Finance (FOREX, Futures, Options, Equities)

PLATFORM
Objective C++, IPhone SDK, Blackberry API, J2ME

SOLUTION
The Trading platform for IPhone helps a trader remain connected even while he is not in front of computer. The Trading platform has most of the features as available in the platform for desktop. 

The IPhone supports following features

1.      Real time quotes streaming

2.      Trading support

• Place Order
• Cancel Replace Order
• Cancel Order
• Close Order
• Reverse Order
• Cancel all
• Close All
• Reverse all

3.      Charts

• Trading while looking at charts
• Indicators

4.      Positions

5.      Account Details

6.      Automatic Reconnection

The IPhone application is developed in a modular way so that the Business logic, user interface and the connectivity are loosely coupled. This architecture provides flexibility to connect the same application to any Broker.

Exchange and Broker Solutions from LTech India

AURUM is an Exchange and a Broker Solution Suite

The AURUM Exchange Platform Architecture is based on the concept of the Distributed Computing and the Event-driven Push Technology. A number of small-decoupled Components and Programs work all together in a cooperative and a Distributed Environment to deliver all the Business functionalities for all the Users, which is easily monitored and maintainable.

The availability of reliable volume produced servers and very competitive price performance ratios together with affordable large bandwidth networks enables development of high performance, cost effective real-time distributed trading systems. Smaller individual decoupled components enable the building of quality software systems at a fraction of effort and deployment time of traditional systems.

Software fault tolerance, with replica processes and duplicate machines gives the availability that an Exchange needs; Geographic immunity is given by having “hot” backup sites

The distributed computing architecture provides system level reliability unprecedented in traditional architectures. The premise is that business rules, business data, data distribution, load balancing, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery are all part of the general notion of service abstraction.

Exchange

The exchange solution consists of

1. Matching services
2. Market Data Feeder & Historical Data Services
3. Back Office with facility

Matching Engine

Matching Service works on the distributed architecture and supports scalability and extensibility. The Module comprises of Robust System for Order Queuing and Matching the Buy/Sell Orders on the basis of price time priority. The matching logic can be modified as per the requirement.

Features

1.      Supports Market, Limit and Stop Loss orders.

2.      GTD, DAY and GTC types of time conditions supported.

3.      Supports external price feed to regulate the Market according to International Prices.

4.      Order matching based on orders as well as according to quotes.

5.   Supports AUTO Orders that can be placed by Market Makers and whose prices are regulated by the external price Feeds.

6.   Special mode trading where Clients Orders are traded against house Account Orders and not among themselves.

Market Data Feeder

Market data feeder is an important module that disseminates all the information pertaining to the on-going trading activities. Commonly broadcasted data is market depth, last traded price/volume/time, Open Interest, Open, high, low, close values of price and open interest etc.

Features

1. Flexibility of configuring broadcast to every single update in order queues/LTP or at regular intervals
2. Intervals can be different for different securities based on trading volume or categories
3. Compression of the broadcast packets to save on the bandwidth
4. Member wise configurability for the frequency of broadcast

Back Office

This module covers the functionalities involved in Beginning of Day and End of Day activities to be performed.

Features

1.      Security Master to add/modify/delete/suspend Security Information.

2.      Index Management to add/modify/delete Indices.

3.      Market scheduling to set start and end timings of various Sessions.

4.      Facility of setting conditions for Automatic Trading halt due to set % difference in Index.

5.      Facilities to create/suspend/deactivate Member Accounts.

Clearing House

There will be one clearing house associated directly with the exchange. There can be many members associated with the clearing house depending on their area of operations. These members have access to back office with various priviliges to perform restricted operations.

The clearing house will have following

1. Order Management System
2. Risk Management System
3. Market Data Feeder
4. Historical Data Services
5. Back Office
6. TWS

Order Management System

The Module is the Engine which takes the Order from Client, parses it, validates it and then passes it on to the Account Risk Management. The Module manages all Client Connections and Order Requests.

Risk Management System

This covers the limit Validations at Broker level after every Trade and thus protects Exchange from running short of the margin for the positions taken by the Clients for the Brokers.

Features

      1.      Trade level Risk Management can also be changed to Order Level Risk Management.

      2.      Members to automatically get suspended if margin limits violated

      3.      Automatic bulk cancellation of Orders for suspended Members

     4.      Alerts can be set for the margin consumption to some % of total limit and after regular increments of % consumption.
                   

Market Data Feeder

This module just gets the data from Exchange and propagates further.

Historical Data Services

This application module stores tick as well as periodic data. Data stored at the CH level is master data and is used by brokers to synchronize their historical data servers.

Back Office

The back office performs basically two tasks

1. Member Administration
2. Collateral Management

Member Administration

The Administrator can easily create all the Entities in the System. He can also create various roles with different sets of rights to perform different operations with restricted access. BOD/EOD activities can be performed at a click of a button.

Features

      1.      Facility to create different branches and trader logins under different branches.

      2.      Facility to map clients to different Traders.

      3.      Role master to create different Roles with different sets of Rights.

      4.      Facilities to upload the limits and holding related information o Clients in the System.

Collateral Management

This module helps the Exchange to keep the track of the cash and cash equivalents deposited by Members as margin. Members can also view their own details. Upload of the collateral file provided by back-office becomes a beginning of day activity for the Administrator.

Features

      1.      Cash, securities, Bank Guarantee and FD’s as the components of Margin.

      2.      Configurable conditions of minimum proportional requirement of the Components.

      3.      Real time update of margin available with update in Collateral Components.

TWS

The clearing house can also have a trader connect to it and trade. These will be high net worth clients.

Broker Solution

The broker will be connected to clearing house. The broker will have following modules

1. Order Management System
2. Risk Management System
3. Market Data Feeder
4. Historical Data services
5. Back Office
6. TWS

Order Management System

The system is similar to the one with clearing house. As this is at the lowest level of the tree, there will be more clients connecting to this system.

Risk Management System

Real time Risk Management module safeguards the Broker from the risk of running short of margins of the Clients against their Obligations. We have reactive measures like MTM based lock/auto square off. We are working on System that provides various themes of Risk computation (for example Gross Exposure/VAR), various protective tools like buy/sell/turnover/position limit etc. 

Features

      1.      Client wise script wise limit setting.

      2.      Position limits.

      3.      Facility to set margin/buy/sell/turnover/MTM/max open order limits for Clients/Traders/Branches.

      4.      Facility to provide multiple Exposures.

Market Data Feeder

The system is similar to the one with clearing house. As this is at the lowest level of the tree, there will be more clients connecting to this system

Historical Data Services

The system is similar to the one with clearing house. As this is at the lowest level of the tree, there will be more clients connecting to this system.

This module connects to the clearing house historical data services for any synchronization.

Back Office

The Administrator of the Broker can easily create all the Entities in the System. He can also create various roles with different sets of rights to perform different operations with restricted access. BOD/EOD activities can be performed at a click of a button.

Features

      1.      Facility to create different branches and trader logins under different branches.

      2.      Facility to map clients to different Traders.

      3.      Role master to create different Roles with different sets of Rights.

      4.      Facilities to upload the limits and holding related information to Clients in the System.

TWS

A desktop based trading workstation branded with broker’s logo and name.

Features

      1.      Easy to operate Buy/sell order entry, fast / batch/basket/auction/2L/3L/spread order entry screens

      2.      Shortcut keys to access different screens quickly

      3.      Online order/trade books and online net position screen with real time values

      4.      Utilities like margin calculator/Index calculator

      5.      Up to five simultaneous market watches

      6.      Template of market watch can be stored and revisited

      7.      Charting tools