Survey Results

Just putting some surveys to bed. Thanks to all those many people who contributed.

What else do you want Thinking Stuff to do?
0% - Auto-trading of shares.
29% - Auto-trading of futures.
29% - Add more trading rules for us to choose from
43% - Just fix the bugs that are there now - then do new stuff

Thinking Stuff currently connects to Gain Capital and Oanda. If you had to choose, which other company should it connect to?
50% - Interactive Brokers
25% - FXCM
25% - InterbankFX

Total number of respondents was 7 for the first question, and a whopping 8 for the second. Yes siree, obviously a hot topic for discussion around the ol' water cooler.

To respond, yes, I've drawn a line in the sand for what will be included in v1.0, and that is not much else besides fixing the remaining bugs. No saying I don't listen to the voices of the 7 survey contributors.

If you would like more trading rules to choose from, I guess the next step is to tell me what they are. Now that I've incorporated TA-Lib, it will be very easy to create rules based on any of the indicators listed here.

And gosh, I'd love to have it connect with Interactive Brokers, but it's not so simple. IB offers shares and futures and options and currencies, whereas the entire framework of my software deals solely in currency at the moment. There's a set number of currencies, they work in pips, and have no volume. Shares have volume, work in cents, and there's thousands of different stocks, being added to and subtracted from all the time. So to offer auto-trading in the other financial instruments would mean a major overhaul taking many months.

But that's my problem, not yours. There are 4 people who might be very unhappy right about now. Apologies. Make that 8, because FXCM doesn't have a suitable API, and InterbankFX doesn't have examples in VB.Net.

The next survey (available here) asks:

I'd love to subscribe to this fantastic software, but...
It's too expensive
I couldn't work out how to use it
I'm waiting for v1.0 to be released
It doesn't connect to the broker I use

p.s. None of those answers are acceptable - go buy it :-)