TradingView is an online HTML5 technical analysis platform and social network for traders. We start

Very short

TradingView.com is a social network for traders based on an online technical analysis platform. The client part (charting or charts) is implemented in HTML5 and this is the first tool in the world for traders of this level of functionality.

Introduction

For about 10 years we have been working on desktop products for analyzing the securities market. These are the most complicated trading and analytical terminals that allow you to display exchange information, process it, analyze the results obtained, optimize them for the necessary parameters and send an order to the broker depending on the decision made. The development of such solutions takes years, which forms the high cost of the product for the end user.

Based on our experience, we decided to try an alternative business model and launch a startup that is affordable and free for a wide audience.

Functionality

TradingView’s main tool is a real-time charting, the functionality of which is not inferior to the leading desktop platforms. You can receive tick-by-tick data in real time on Forex, US stocks and indices, use a wide range of technical analysis tools and have access to the platform from any computer with a browser.

Any chart can be published in the gallery in the form of ideas for discussion with other traders, which at the same time allows the use of other people's ideas in their work. So, if you are trading Microsoft Stocks (MSFT), you can simultaneously monitor what TradingView users think about it.

The published chart can be borrowed in IFRAME format to any web resource, so users can easily post their ideas on blogs or forums. In addition, we provide a free widget that anyone can use on their website.

Business model

The idea of ​​a portal business model is not new. We want to create a free and affordable tool for a wide audience, and then monetize traffic. There can be many ways to monetize, now it’s too early to think about it, at least until we reach 10-15 thousand unique visits per day. At the moment, the Google Analytics chart is as follows:

Future development

We are currently working on connecting futures and will connect new exchanges as far as possible. With great pleasure we would give out quotes with RTS, but unfortunately, according to their conditions, each user has to pay exchange fees, which contradicts the format of our service. We are ready to pay a monthly fee for connecting to the quotes server, but we are not ready to pay for each user, because we simply do not track their number.

In the near future we will develop a tool that we have tested before only in university research. Its essence is to help traders predict future price movements based on twitter activity. On this subject, we will definitely make a separate post.

Technology

In terms of technology, the project was completely new to us. All developers had solid experience with mainstream languages ​​(C ++, few sharps and Java), but there was practically no experience in web development. After a series of experiments, we settled on Django for the portal itself and Erlang for processing and relaying stock data. The client part is implemented in HTML5 with the requirement for support for Canvas and WebSocket, so outdated browsers are not supported (for example, the same IE8, where there is no canvas). For full-text search, use Sphinx, and PostrgeSQL as the DBMS.

Post Goals

Naturally, the main goal is to draw attention to our startup and get as much feedback as possible to improve it. However, this is our first post on the hub, which, according to the idea, was supposed to be not very long and at the same time describe the project from different angles. Therefore, none of the sections does not disclose details, although it may well qualify for a separate post. Depending on the quality of the comments, we will decide to continue publishing.

About us

We deliberately avoided mentioning the company name or other details. If this information is not perceived as advertising, we can make a separate photo post about this.