KenCharts

Background

The plan was to provide innovative trading research tools and platform solutions for fund management, primarily in the North American equities market.

Approach to solution

The client’s selection process involved carefully evaluating potential development partners, including considering industry expertise, technology competency, communication effectiveness, project management methodologies, innovation and delivery punctuality. Computools was the preferred choice due to its extensive experience, financial industry knowledge and commitment to delivering a high-quality solution.

Computools role

Our company offered the services of a CTO who developed the plan, assembled the team and brought the project to the support stage.

Key decisions and outcomes

The Android version introduced several essential features and functionalities, including:

• The application offered a sign-up/sign-in mechanism via email to create personalised user accounts.
• Users could restore their passwords if forgotten or lost.
• The platform provided an online, real-time display of current share prices from North American markets.
• The app included various chart types, including candlestick and bar graphs, allowing users to visualise price movements.
• The application featured a set of technical price indicators, like Relative Strength Index (RSI), Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD), Bollinger Bands, Stochastic, to help users make informed trading decisions.
• Users can access comprehensive details about individual shares, including open, close, high, low, bid, bid size, ask, ask size, change and change percentage.
• The app offered filters for users to refine their search by price range or stock market and a search feature to find specific company shares.
• Users could create and manage their lists of shares to be tracked.