A direction, not a schedule. An item lands here once the decision is made and written down; it leaves when the thing is done — or when we drop it, and then the reason for dropping it stays in the documentation too.

More brokers

Our way is the opposite of the big platforms'. There, the broker has to write code against someone else's specification; we adapt to the broker's own API, whatever it looks like.

From a broker we need exactly one thing — an authenticator: OAuth, so a person signs in with a login and a password instead of pasting keys by hand. Everything else — quotes, orders, positions, history — we build against their API ourselves.

The letters are sent. Interactive Brokers is separate work on the seam; see the neighbouring article.

Comparing traders

What verifies trades today will compare traders tomorrow, by a measure that cannot be gamed. The foundation is already laid: a trading record is indivisible, publicity is a property of the person rather than of a single post, and money amounts never leave.

For now this is a direction, not a feature: counting on incomplete data is worse than not counting at all.

The messenger's later phases

After private chat come file transfer with a distributed cache, then voice, video and screen sharing, then public rooms with moderation and history, then reliability and scale.

In the final phase the messenger grows into the rest: exchanging trade ideas, Quasar Office documents, mobile clients.

Shop and subscriptions

The commercial part of the ecosystem: software, modules and subscriptions in one place. Plan limits are already described and wired into the code; the shop itself is ahead.

What will not happen

Windows signing any time soon. Not for lack of skill: it is an annual fee, and right now that money goes into development. We say so plainly instead of pretending it is around the corner.

Mailings. No marketing letters, no digests, no “useful tips”. An unasked-for letter steals attention, and a few spam complaints ruin delivery for the whole domain — including activation and password-reset mail.

Showing money amounts to outsiders. In no form and under no setting: any deposit is one hundred percent, whether it is a hundred dollars or a hundred thousand.

The right to hide a losing trade. A public record is shown whole or not at all. The right to hide a loss is the right to show only profit, and then the statistics lie.