The thesis focuses on studying and analyzing the financial market with particular interest in derivative financial instruments such as futures and options. After that it deals with the design and development of a web trading system able to meet the requirements of professional traders and reducing the initial effort for anyone wishing to pursue this activity. In particular, we will analyze and integrate possible data sources to cover the American and European market; define efficient data structures to store short-term information and end-of-day data history for long periods; develop simple and intuitive user interfaces that allow the user to perform different technical analysis with those markets.