Sure. Why Not?

I have indeed decided to go ahead and make Thinking Stuff commercially available. Sure. Why not?

I'm thinking of 3 versions:

1. Thinking Stuff Trial. PostgreSQL and Gain Capital's API have made it possible for a completely free trial version. There will be no time limit, but some features will be crippled. Hopefully you'll see just how easy creating trading systems, experimentation, and backtesting are, and you'll sign up for either of the two paid subscriptions below.


2. Thinking Stuff Lite (US$20/month?). Designed to *save* you thousands of dollars by allowing you to backtest systems before you use them in the real world. Sure, everyone knows they're *suppposed* to paper trade a new system for a while, but...


3. Thinking Stuff (US$50/month?). Designed to *make* you thousands of dollars by adding the automatic trade execution. Trading for a living is supposed to be about giving you freedom, not replacing one computer screen for another.

Thinking Stuff will be built for systems running Windows 2000 and above. I'll be waiting for Microsoft to officially release their new .NET product in early November, and chances are I won't be ready by then anyway. We'll have to see.

BTW, I don't know if anyone's using it, but soon I'll be removing the access to this page through http://blog.thinkingstuff.com/. If you do use that address, please change to http://www.thinkingstuff.com/blog/.

Please, as always, I appreciate any comments.