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Having used it for a few days, the biggest part I’d like to see fixed in the near term is the portfolio tab (which I know you’re aware of). A few of these points echo Peter above as I had exactly the same thoughts.

  • The portfolio chart will need time ranges just like the stock charts - I suggest use the same for consistency
  • The portfolio profit/loss needs some kind of indication of time - would time ranges with one selected be enough as on other charts? This is a bold decision and keeps the charts clean, I think I like it and it would work on portfolio as well.
  • I would really like to see profit for the time period selected, not for just one day, on all charts
  • The portfolio profit/loss needs to account for all costs (tax, commission)
  • Stock lines should also show true cost IMO (particularly when calculating profit)
  • When you tap into your shares, I’d rather have they information about your holding at the top of the screen
  • I’d up the limit on stocks shown in lists here - should be more like 50 or 100 than 10, perhaps load them in queue for performance if you have to.
  • I know it’s traditional to show it, but I don’t really care about the daily change (why should I as an investor?), unless I’m looking at the 1D period - I’d rather see either the change in my holding over all time, or the change over a given time period for the stock.

Other than these minor UI quibbles, it’s been working well, I’ve had one failed transaction so far (a 4pm order), which I count as quite good for this stage of testing, haven’t seen any crashes, had some weird behaviour when it had an intermittent network connection - you might want to look at going into offline mode if you timeout on connections to the server, then let the user go online again explicitly.

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