Enhanced search & charting

Posted in February 2019 by Ryan O'Doherty

We're delighted to unveil the latest update to our award-winning mobile iPhone and Android trading app*. In this update we’ve focused on improving navigation, watchlist and charting features, as well as adding new mini charts.

Improved navigation

We’ve made several updates to the layout and functionality of the app, to help you navigate with ease and efficiency when checking prices and placing trades.

The current ‘Watchlist’ and ‘Product Library’ sections have been combined into one ‘Products’ area. New tabs and a swipe functionality have been added to allow fast access to different product lists.

We’ve also redesigned the account bar, which includes information on your account type, as well as account value and P&L. It’s situated at the top of the mobile app so the information is accessible on more modules, such as an order ticket, to help you make informed trading decisions.

Finally, the search tool now automatically displays relevant instruments once you start typing. It also shows your previous 10 search terms, allowing you to quickly navigate to your regularly searched instruments.

New watchlist features

The updated ‘Products’ area includes new topical watchlists, allowing you to see which instruments are experiencing significant movement or are currently trending. The topical watchlists consist of:

Popular products – the most-traded instruments from the last seven days
Hot products – instruments whose recent trade volume has increased significantly versus the monthly average
Price movers – instruments which have had unusual moves up or down
Mentions – the instruments most recently mentioned by our global analysts
Biggest risers and biggest fallers – the top five instruments in each asset class with the largest daily percentage price rise/fall

On Android devices, you can now also add new instruments to your watchlists directly from the watchlist screen.

Enhanced charting

Our industry-leading charting package* has been updated with new features, including:

A wider range of intervals, with new options such as 1 second, 10 minutes, 2 hours and monthly, among others
The separation of the crosshair and range tool
An improvement to the placement, editing and deleting functionality of draw tools on interactive charts
A new font size slider which can be used to adjust the text size on a trading chart axis

Mini chart

You now also have the option to view mini ‘trend’ charts within watchlist and library quote panels. These custom charts allow you to see a quick snapshot of recent price action, without having to load each instrument’s chart individually.

The line charts are updated in real time, and display two days’ worth of price action. The scale of the charts is also adjusted to provide a measure of volatility. For example, if volatility is low, the line chart will appear flatter.

Minimum operating system requirements for the update

iOS: 10.0 and later
Android: 4.4 and later

Note: For iPhone users, the new dashboard feature is only available on iPhone 5 and above.

*Awarded Best Platform Features, Best Mobile Phone/Tablet App, ranked highest for Charting, based on highest user satisfaction among spread betters, CFD and FX traders, Investment Trends 2018 UK Leverage Trading Report.

Other releases

July 2019

Web platform

Light theme & fixed layouts

We’re excited to announce a number of design and style improvements in our latest desktop platform upgrade – find out more about the new features.

Learn more

July 2019

Mobile

Improved navigation & simplified menus

We’re pleased to introduce our latest mobile update which introduces a number of usability enhancements to improve your experience with the app. We’ve also unified our spread betting and CFD trading apps into a single app.

Learn more

February 2019

Mobile