Realist is a mobile trading and investment app. It allows users to grow their wealth through smart, goal-based investing, thanks to real-time market data tracking, portfolio personalization, and full goal customization.

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About Project
With Realist, users allocate funds across different assets, test scenarios, manage risks — all while staying in control of their finances.
Challenge
To combine a well-structured user journey with complex financial logic.

The client expected advanced portfolio personalization level, secure banking and KYC, pre-trade analytics, and real-time trading execution.

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Solution
A seamless, goal-based trading experience: intuitive frontend + secure backend.

While users efficiently configure portfolios, allocate investments, and manage multiple goals, the app provides smooth performance, real-time updates, secure transactions.

Benefits

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Invest in multiple goals, and easily withdraw or reinvest funds.
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Benchmark your performance against Tech and US Large Cap indices using historical data.
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Track each investment goal separately with clear allocations, progress, and performance.
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Smart investing with Realist

Advanced Features for Clear Decisions

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Fully personalized portfolio.

Build a portfolio that reflects your values: include or exclude assets, adjust sectors and regions, and invest exactly how you want.

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Automated investing made easy.

Set up recurring contributions for each goal and let the app handle transactions automatically — consistent growth without the hassle.

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Advanced trading logic under the hood.

Benefit from real-time pre-trading and execution algorithms that mitigate risk, prevent slippage, and simplify your decision making.

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Advanced Trading Made Simple

Goal-based investing and automated contributions. Simple. Powerful. All-in-one.

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Setup Your Account & Identity Verification

We integrated Fourthline as a third-party KYC provider. The verification flow is standard and quick:

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Secure document scanning
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Identity verification
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Compliance with regulatory requirements
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Key Sections and Active Investment Goals
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Each goal is presented as a separate card with customizable assets.
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Users are able to combine different companies, sectors, and risk levels.
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Ideal for investment diversification, risk management, strategy testing.
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Customize all your cards

Thanks to intuitive visualization — with each goal presented as a separate card and its own investment flow — users can clearly track allocations and avoid confusion in managing their funds.

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Money Flow & Transactions
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Real-time instant deposits, withdrawals, transfers
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Transparent transaction history tracking
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Secure integration with banks and external systems
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Easy reinvestment across all investment goals
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Build Wealth with Automation

Automate recurring investments by setting up scheduled contributions for each goal. Invest regularly while keeping full control over timing, amounts, and strategy.

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Full investment personalization

Users select investment parameters and allocate funds across industries, assets, and other criteria using adjustable distribution settings.

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Select specific assets and apply ESG risk considerations to form right portfolios.
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Adjust regional/industry allocations to shape how capital is distributed across markets.
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Get real-time feedback from the app while adjusting parameters, showing whether your portfolio is well diversified or poorly diversified.
Clear portfolio vizualization

All selected assets, regional and sector allocations, and ESG preferences are visualized in one place, making it easy to understand how funds are distributed.

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Choose the right subscription

Higher-tier plans allow more goals, advanced portfolio personalization options, and greater control over regional, sector, and ESG settings.

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Control all messages and notifications

Fully customizable notifications: quarterly reports, personal finance updates, and key investment insights keep users focused on the result.

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Institutional-grade backend logic
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Lambda-Driven Execution

Integrated real-time Lambda-based calculations to quantify effective leverage and expected market impact.

Dynamic Exposure Control

Our backend automatically adjusts position sizing based on Lambda sensitivity to prevent over-leveraging.

Optimized Fill Rate

Uses order flow intensity modeling to maximize fill rates and execution speed in volatile markets.

Full-cycle design and development process for Realist mobile app

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UI/UX & System Architecture

The team refined the initial design concept and defined a modular, scalable system capable of supporting multiple investment goals and real-time market data.

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Frontend Development

Every screen and interaction was carefully planned based on user journey analysis. All data and controls are organized logically — from initial verification and goal setting to portfolio adjustment and fund transfers.

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Backend Development

Engineers worked on the core trading engine with Lambda-driven execution, providing precise calculations of trade sensitivity, dynamic exposure adjustments, and optimized fill rates.

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Testing & QA

All features were thoroughly tested on both iOS and Android devices using multiple methods to ensure maximum reliability. The team verified correct real-time trade calculations, dynamic exposure adjustments, accurate transaction processing.

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Launch & Deployment

The app was deployed with full regulatory compliance and rigorous backend validation. A soft launch allowed initial users to test features under real market conditions, while real-time monitoring ensured transaction accuracy, portfolio synchronization.

Final Results

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Scalable & Future-Ready

The platform is fully prepared to support additional assets, new indices, and growing user volumes. Its modular architecture, decoupled services, and horizontally scalable backend ensure that new features and users can be added without affecting system stability.

Accurate Investment Logic

All trade execution, Lambda-driven sensitivity calculations, and portfolio simulations were validated end-to-end. The system now consistently delivers precise investment data, allowing users to manage complex goal-based strategies with confidence.

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Robust Backend

The backend was delivered fully modular and scalable, supporting multi-tenant architecture and multiple simultaneous investment goals. Real-time trade calculations, dynamic exposure adjustments, and transaction processing now operate reliably under heavy load, providing a stable foundation for future expansions.

Technologies

Tools
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Xcode
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Android Studio
Development
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Swift
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Kotlin
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Compose
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Koin
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Firebase
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Postman
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MySQL
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AWS Lambda
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AWS SQS
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AWS EC2
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Design
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Figma