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Thank you for the advice! You are absolutely right that there are plenty of platforms offering paper/demo trading. I would stay away from the market if there were no competition, even if this competition comes from free-for-user platforms. In my previous business I competed with top search...

At the moment it's for Forex only (Forex Simulator) but I plan to create versions for other markets as well in the next 3-6 months. Yes, it uses real historical tick data from multiple sources.

I started to develop it as a way to speed up my personal learning. The idea was to get more screen time in a shorter time span. Unlike in paper/demo trading, I can speed up the simulation up to 600x which means getting 10 minutes of screen time per second, or a whole day of screen time in just 2...

I absolutely agree with you! Few years ago I spent about 12 months total polishing internal note-taking application just because I wasn't happy with the UI. The best UI is no UI :)

Thank you! You may be surprised, but manual one is much harder to code and polish :) UI is always harder and time-consuming than any business logic. UI is about plenty of details, experiments with colors, graphics, layouts, speed and usability optimization. It can't be "written once", it's a...

I've almost finished a trading simulation product, now there are three ways to go: 1. Focus on manual trading simulation and training. 2. Focus on automated trading, developing yet another strategy builder and backtester. 3. Try to fit both of these feature sets into a single product. I...

The link you posted is great as a source of ideas for my product, not as a critera for selecting my business model :) Being in the software business for 15+ years, I know from my personal experience that it's easy to compete with free or open-source products. They have no marketing budget at...

Thank you for the clarification. PS: I'm happy that nobody uses it because I can save time on its development :)

I was more surprised that someone actually uses Line charts and that nobody still voted for Point&Figure while I saw it multiple time on screeshots in a chat room I've been for a while :)

Thank you for the link!

I agree that software business is somewhat different from what developers usually expect. I must spend a lot of time on "secondary" work like writing documentation, designing websites, etc. But the highest amount of time is spent on communication, including support. If somebody doesn't like to...

Thank you! Wrote down your ideas, will definitely use them when converting my simulator to the stock market. I feel that spread charts are useless at Forex due to the nature of the market. After your developed an internal platform that works great for you, did you ever consider making a...

Thank you for the detailed explanation! It was a surprise for me that there are people who don't like candlestics :) As for mixing tick/volume bars, the poll is limited to 10 options. I missed Three Line Break, for example. So, it was a choice between mixing or omitting.

There are 10+ types of charts. Something like Kagi looks strange and I'm not sure that anyone actually uses them. What is your favorite chart setup? It will be great to to see screenshots of actual chart layouts as well. I personally need it for my product development but I'm sure that it may...

Don't feed trolls :) I'm sure that all these "from Russia" guys are actually somewhere from Ukraine. I can't imagine a sane person who may be happy of his country financial problems or even wish it run out of money over time. Yes, there are some problems but not as critical to focus on them...

Just exercise on a regular basis. Psychological comfort comes from the body. What works for me is an elliptical trainer each other day for 30 minutes, watching TV series. It's not that hard, just don't increase the load over time, do it in a hobby mode. Don't buy a cheap device, look for...

Bluffing isn't hard to code, especially if you are using some kind of AI argoithm. You may not even code it directly, you will just notice that it's actually bluffing at the end, mimicking humans :) What is "bluffing" from an algorithm development perspective? It's just one of optimization...

People lose not because they can't predict price movements. They lose because they lose more than they make. You can't win by betting against them, but still using the same bad statistics. Even if you are correct in 90% of your positions, but you are taking small profits and waiting for...

Thank you again! You give the most helpful and detailed hints about the product. Don't stop, I'm writing them down :) The more I think about your words, the sharper is the picture. I'm seriously considering getting back on track but just lower my expectations for a while. Something like 2-3...

Thank you for kind works, I really need support at the moment :) I know that your are talking about right things, I'm just too lazy at the moment to consider them. If I fail to find a partner or sell the business, I may get back to running it by myself. Yes, I will hate it at the very...