Web Portal for Professional Financial Services

Abstract

The financial services industry offers great opportunities both for the investors and for the companies providing services to the investors. Most of the existing Web sites offer similar services such as stock/index/options quotes, markets overview, most active issues, etc. On other side, there are various tools for technical analysis, charting, and stocks screening. The paper presents a newly developed Web portal for Professional Financial Services called MFinance that offers for the retail investors the services mentioned over. It provides a detailed explanation of the business cases and the essential functionalities of the portal and the way of their realization based on Java server-side technologies. Special attention is dedicated to the definition and evaluation of trading strategies and to stock screening based on these trading strategies.