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Trade blotter.

Magora designed app for tablets to allow the Mandara Capital Brokers to easily complete their stock exchange operations and analysis in a user friendly interface. A variety of widgets and graphs provides constantly refreshed DB data online via MySQL and MS SQL advanced technologies.

Client
Mandara Capital (crude-oil and derivatives investment manager)
Industry
E-commerce and POS apps
Services
Development · performance optimisation
Delivery
Magora London
Domain
E-commerce and POS apps
Built by Magora

This Trade blotter project was designed and built by Magora. We are a London software development company (since 2010) building e-commerce and POS apps for UK businesses, from a free working prototype to launch and support.

E-commerce and POS development → Free working prototype in 5–10 days

Magora Systems had a wonderful experience of collaborating with Mandara Capital - an established investment manager specializing in trading crude oil and oil product derivatives. The company needed an efficient solution to streamline and accelerate their stock trading operations.

As stock trading is a highly multitasking and complex sphere, the application had to have a great deal of functional elements located on a single screen. So, the first difficulty that arose was the layout for iPad. As this device scales HTML-pages by itself, it was difficult to set the necessary parameters to make all the buttons fit into the screen. Another problem was that the pricing calculations were originally implemented on the server side. This significantly affected the speed of data refreshment on the screen. Therefore, we decided to transfer the calculating operations to the client side. The data is retrieved from the two databases (MySQL and MS SQL) and calculated in bulk right in the browser.

Our intensive work resulted in a sleek web-application designed exclusively for iPads. With this app, the Mandara Capital Brokers can easily view stock price changes, trends, instantly buy and sell stocks by tapping a single button. Stock Blotter is also an excellent checklist manager, as it allows brokers to see checklist status, collaborate with each other and leave comments.

Project facts

Trade blotter, at a glance.

Stock Blotter: iPad web application for viewing prices and trends, buying and selling with one tap, and managing checklists

Client

Mandara Capital (crude-oil and derivatives investment manager)

Sector

Finance: trading

Platforms

Web application designed for iPad

Scope

Integrations: two databases (MySQL and MS SQL); pricing calculations moved to the browser for speed; collaboration and comments on checklists

Typical budget for this scope

£25k–£60k

Typically 3–5 months · Magora pricing guide · 2026 prices

Results

Brokers can see price changes and trends, trade with a single tap and track checklist status and comments on one iPad screen.

ServicesDevelopment · performance optimisation
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