StockTouch is a powerful new way to monitor and understand the stock market for casual and professional investors.
For the Financial Pros
● StockTouch uses up-to-the-minute market data to create 9,800 dynamic charts, all of them available at your fingertips. You can customize your view of the market to view price or volume, and rearrange the layout to sort by market cap, winners, activity and alphabetical.
● StockTouch has a search function, offering two different ways to find any publicly-traded stock.
● You can use StockTouch to see the top 900 stocks in the U.S. market, as well as the top 900 global stocks, categorized across nine industry sectors.
● With StockTouch, you can go back in time, using the slider to see results from as far back as five years ago to as recent as five minutes ago.
● With live information, StockTouch allows you to see 1400 companies at any one time, supported by over 16,000 news articles.
● You can see the entire stock market as the day unfolds and zoom in to take a closer look at individual stocks with StockTouch.
● 9 sectors, 900 companies, 12,600 tiles of heat, 6300 charts, 10,800 news stories, all updated every 5 minutes, all at once.
● Through favorites, StockTouch allows you to keep track of the stocks that matter most to you, automatically syncing between your iPad and iPhone via iCloud.
● Future versions of StockTouch will include new visualizations, watch lists, portfolios, more analytics, international markets, and social features.
"StockTouch is an iPad/iPhone app that allows users to quickly understand in a very visual way the overall state of the stock market, and then drill down further to the individual stock level. StockTouch includes a groundbreaking interface that brings together the power of data visualization and Xignite’s financial market data." - Financial Market Data Web Services - XIGNITE BLOG
For the Technical Mind
● StockTouch was awarded the #1 iPad Finance App by Apple's App Store Rewind 2011.
● StockTouch's technology platform is the first of its kind to apply a video game engine to visualize statistical data, which is combined with a proprietary compression technology that transmits information at 20x the speed of comparable apps allowing the application to deliver up-to-the-minute market trends and numbers through a visually-intuitive, game-like, iOS-native interface.
● StockTouch was designed for mobile-touch. One fluid zoomable heat map interface displays 75% of all global trading activity, enabling investors to view the equity markets contextually as they unfold.
● StockTouch is a series of color-coded heat maps that gives you the pulse and direction of the market by price, volume, in the context of the S&P 500, well as by performance within a given sector.
● StockTouch brings revolutionary data visualization to the masses so that anyone can understand the dynamics of the stock market, not just the financial elite.
● StockTouch features a groundbreaking interface that combines design, animation and high performance, bringing together the power of data visualization and financial market data.
"I highly recommend StockTouch if you are even the slightest bit interested in the stock market. Those that care about the stock market for business or personal reasons would also love this app. It’s just a great tool for watching over the markets, and easily puts Apple’s own Stocks app to shame." Christine Chan - Appadvice.com
For the Casual Investor
● StockTouch is for everyone, not just traders– college students deciding on careers, jobseekers looking for new opportunities, salespeople calling on clients, retired people, entrepreneurs starting new businesses.
● StockTouch is a dynamic, tactile map of the market for iPad, iPhone and Mac desktop.
● StockTouch brings the market to your fingertips, and gives you a dynamic birds eye view of the stock market's activities with a professional understanding of the stock market instantly.
● On StockTouch, shades of green indicate stocks that are gaining in value, while shades of red indicate stocks that are losing in value.
● StockTouch's touch and zoom-based navigation makes rapidly flying through a large data set very natural and intuitive.
● StockTouch is currently available in the iTunes store as a universal app for iPad and iPhone.
"It's an enormous force when we animate our statistics… The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation." – Hans Rosling
"We are in a blizzard of information - we need to be able to design ways of visualising data in a way that can make them beautiful, that can make them tell a story, that can make them more understandable." – David McCandless
Technophilia says "StockTouch is a surprisingly cheap app given the power and functionality it contains. What is it? Essentially, it’s an app that lets you know anything you could possibly want to know about the stock market at any point in time."
"Apple Selects StockTouch as Top Finance iPad App for 2011" -- The Daily
StockTouch was selected by Apple as the Top iPad Finance App for 2011 via Apple’s App Store Rewind 2011!
Top Grossing App for Finance in the AppStore, October 12, 2011
Visible Market Inc. is a data visualization software company that creates groundbreaking mobile apps for the financial markets. Their newest product StockTouch is an iPad/iPhone app that allows users to quickly understand in a very visual way the overall state of the stock market, and then instantly zoom in and out of current market data for individual stocks. StockTouch features a groundbreaking interface that combines design, animation and high performance, bringing together the power of data visualization and financial market data.
What inspired you to create StockTouch? How did your past experience in finance contribute to the direction and development of the app?
We’ve always felt that finance pros had a vastly greater understanding of financial markets, allowing them to make superior investment decisions for themselves. One part of the disparity comes from how information is presented, and another part comes from the reality that financial analytics can be complicated. Our apps use a mobile-touch data visualization engine to recast live financial information with new vibrant visual formats.
The design of StockTouch is elegant yet user friendly. What influenced the design process?
We are big fans of the leading thinkers in data visualization: Edward Tufte, Hans Rosling and David McCandless. Tufte: "The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing "
Do you think that StockTouch is able to make a subject that is often intimidating, more approachable and accessible to the masses?
Yes, we hope so. Live markets generate vast amounts of statistical data. Our apps try to capture those statistics, make them beautiful and more understandable to anyone. Everyone is affected by our financial markets, and a greater understanding of our markets by a larger audience should have a positive influence on the economics of our society. Democratized market information benefits us all, so we are happy to be contributing to this movement.
StockTouch was selected by Apple as the Top iPad Finance App for 2011 via Apple’s App Store Rewind 2011! How did it feel to be recognized by Apple and how does that kind recognition influence the direction of company?
Very exciting. We are excited to be developing apps for awesome products like the iPad2 and iPhone4S, and are thrilled to have this recognition from Apple.
What new features are you adding to StockTouch for 2012?
New visualizations, watch lists, portfolios, new markets, international, and socialization.
Who would you say is your target audience with this app?
StockTouch is a new way to consume business information. It tells you everything that’s happening for companies, sectors and markets as a whole. It turns the iPad into a gadget. Our target is anyone interested in business and finance, from reading the news to trading stocks.
Where did the idea of displaying Stock information in this way emerge from?
We set out to make a financial heat map which was tactile, fluid, beautiful and also useful. We created a statistical data ontology using 9 major sector tiles composed of 100 individual stock tiles apiece, each organized in a spiral, which gave our “map” a sense of geography and symmetry. With that as the canvas, we added color to show degrees of correlation and movement, then loaded that into a game engine.
How much easier do you feel StockTouch makes navigating this kind of information?
We believe that our touch and zoom-based navigation makes rapidly flying through a large data set very natural. It’s pretty much impossible to get lost while using StockTouch because it uses a map metaphor, and stays consistent with that metaphor. If you want to “go back out”, you simply pinch and zoom to reorient yourself.
Every StockTouch experience is unique. All at once, 9 sectors, 900 companies, 12,600 tiles of heat, 6300 charts, 10,800 news stories, all updated every 5 minutes.
Were there any apps that inspired you during development of StockTouch?
We looked to find the most radiant, beautiful and dynamic apps that had been developed for the iPad, and wanted to bring that innovation and creativity to finance. We love the music apps Reactable and SoundVision, which turn the iPad into a music device. We are big fans of Flipboard and Reeder. Of course, the success of touch-based games is inspirational.
Was the aesthetic for StockTouch as important to you as the functionality?
We are inspired by data visualization and its thought leaders Edward Tufte, Hans Rosling and David McCandless.
"It's an enormous force when we animate our statistics… The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation." – Hans Rosling
"We are in a blizzard of information - we need to be able to design ways of visualising data in a way that can make them beautiful, that can make them tell a story, that can make them more understandable." – David McCandless
We started with the goal of maximizing aesthetic, dynamics, data speed, data usefulness all together to create the story of financial data out of the statistics. Most of our compromises were made because we hit up against the hardware and software limits of the device, memory, processing speed, and mobile data transfer. We had to adjust for that.
Like most stock apps you can’t buy and sell stocks using StockTouch. Is there any particular reason why this seems to be avoided?
Our view is the iPad is a data consumption device – it’s great for videos, reading news, playing games. We found the way financial information is typically presented to be confusing: we felt we could do something more immersive than index summaries and line charts.
We believe StockTouch is for everyone, not just traders– college students deciding on careers, jobseekers looking for new opportunities, salespeople calling on clients, retired people, entrepreneurs starting new businesses. A lot of people benefit from understanding stock markets. We want to our app to elevate understanding of companies and economics. We believe this experience is more enriching than an app that’s designed for trading.
Do you already have plans for the future of StockTouch or other new apps in development that we can look forward to?
Yes! We plan to make StockTouch better and better, with new preference settings and the ability to watch stocks and portfolios. We are adding more analytics and other international geographies. As for other apps, you bet, stay tuned.
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Technophilia says "StockTouch is a surprisingly cheap app given the power and functionality it contains. What is it? Essentially, it’s an app that lets you know anything you could possibly want to know about the stock market at any point in time."
The Daily thinks we’re alright
We are humbled and excited to be selected by Apple as the Top iPad Finance App for 2011 via Apple’s App Store Rewind 2011! View the list in iTunes here (click on iPad apps). This is fantastic news. OK, back to work.
Canadian TV show App Central reviews StockTouch. It’s the first app reviewed in Episode 8.1, which you can view here.
StockTouch is on all demo iPads and iPhones in Apple Stores!
StockTouch was mentioned in an article called "Technology Meetups Polish Up Their Acts" in the August 4 edition of the Wall Street Journal (behind the paywall).
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October 14, 2011
"StockTouch is an iPad/iPhone app that allows users to quickly understand in a very visual way the overall state of the stock market, and then drill down further to the individual stock level. StockTouch includes a groundbreaking interface that brings together the power of data visualization and Xignite’s financial market data."
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October 14, 2011
"StockTouch is a great way to view stocks on your iOS device with plenty of information displayed with a beautiful design. There is an intuitive interface to maneuver through all of the information, and there are multiple ways to sort all of the data."
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October 7, 2011
"StockTouch is a great way to view stocks on your iOS device with plenty of information displayed with a beautiful design. There is an intuitive interface to maneuver through all of the information, and there are multiple ways to sort all of the data."
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October 7, 2011
"The stock market and the research involved in working with the stock market can be a bit of a bore, for most of us it quickly becomes awkward and difficult. StockTouch, by taking a more visual and interactive approach, has created a truly stunning application."
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October 7, 2011
"A hint of this future is the StockTouchapp, that is powered by Xignite market data. StockTouch uses the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and iPad to bring to life a visualization of the stock market. Their mobile app offers functionality that no traditional buy-side application can emulate."
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October 7, 2011
"I highly recommend StockTouch if you are even the slightest bit interested in the stock market. Those that care about the stock market for business or personal reasons would also love this app. It’s just a great tool for watching over the markets, and easily puts Apple’s own Stocks app to shame."
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September 28, 2011
"One of the more attractive and useful apps for the iPad has received its first significant update. StockTouch has gone universal and now includes a lot more tools for the active investor."
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September 2, 2011
"StockTouch, a mobile information experience, was described by founder Steve de Brun as a tactile, mobile, powerful map of the stock market that updates throughout the course of the day through market trading hours. ‘It’s a new way of visualizing the stock market."
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September 2, 2011
iShares Managing Director Sue Thompson talks about her favorite financial iPad apps, and StockTouch makes the cut.
July 23, 2011
"Watching stocks is not always exciting. However, a new iPad app is out that actually makes checking the stock market enjoyable, even when it’s a bad day on Wall Street."
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July 13, 2011
"Thinking back to the revolutionary impact of ‘quants’ to stock trading in the late 70s, this app made me wonder whether in the future we would see new types of trading rooms with massive visual displays and synesthetic interfaces."
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July 11, 2011
“Financial markets have always been an area of rapid innovation, with the evolution of graphical stock information being no exception. It looks like the famous stock-ticker could be replaced with the stock-toucher. A new iPad application by Visible Market Inc. provides an excellent example of the use of highly aggregated color graphics and touch-interaction.”
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Jennifer Johnson, CEO & Co-Founder
Jennifer is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. Jennifer developed and launched the first internet dating property, LavaLife, as well as several other notable startups including Live365. Prior to the internet, she spent 10 years in finance, first as an equity options floor trader and later as an investment banker in structured corporate finance at Merrill Lynch and UBS. Her angel investments include Twitter and Postini. She has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Steve de Brun, User Experience & Co-Founder
Steve is a user experience and brand design expert with 17 years experience. He has worked for vivid studios, News Corporation, and Guru.com. He has designed, architected and branded products for companies that have raised over $200M in financing and been acquired by Morningstar, AOL, and Liberty Media. Steve received his B.A. in Fine Arts from Brown University.
John Morris, CTO & Co-Founder
John is a software developer and mobile game programmer with 25 years of experience. He co-founded Blue Lava Wireless games, which was acquired by JAMDAT for $168m, later acquired by Electronic Arts for $680m. John’s expertise is in software development for mobile games, touch based interfaces, 3D, graphics presentation, high performance graphics processing and data transmission
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