Meet Our Customers: DCM Capital

A short interview with Paul Laight, CTO of DCM Capital Ltd, an online CFD, Forex and spread betting platform with unique social media twitter sentiment analysis technology.
 
Let’s talk about your organization. What is your core business?

"The world’s first multi-asset online trading platform with integrated social media sentiment analysis technology".

"Clients can trade CFDs and Spread Bets on over 7000 different stocks, currencies and commodities from around the world and monitor the global sentiment on any asset in real-time".

Could you let us know any further information? (Number of customers, covered regions, revenues, etc.)

"We are expecting to have over 2500 customers from around the world within the first half of 2013 after we launch in January with over £100m worth or daily trade volume going through our DCM Dealer trading platform".

Who is the typical user of your product or service?

"Retail traders".

What does your application or service do?

"Our application is an online CFD, Forex Trading, and Spread Betting platform with a built-in social media sentiment analysis tool. Investors and traders will be able to monitor global sentiment and trade on any stocks, currencies and commodities in real-time".

What functionalities are powered by Lightstreamer?

"Lightstreamer is the engine we use to push prices, sentiments, and news on real-time".

Is your main application based on HTML or other front-end technologies?

"Our platform is written in Javascript".

Do you provide any native apps for smartphones and tablets?

"Not now, but we are planning to develop native apps for smartphones and tablets after our official launch".

Is your product or service visible at any URL (publicly or registration based)?

"We are still in a development phase. The public launch of our platform is expected for January 2013.  [Note: a demo of a Lightstreamer-powered application is currently online on the DCM website home page.]"

We would be very grateful if you would like to provide a short recommendation to testify your experience with Lightstreamer technology and its support team.

"Lightstreamer has enabled us to develop a cutting edge trading platform. It is feature rich and allows for easy integration into any system. We use it for a range of real-time systems within our organisation which would have been impossible using other technologies. Throughout development the Lightstreamer support team have helped us make the Lightstreamer integration into our DCM Dealer platform both easy and cost effective".