Coded a new trading platform

Discussion in 'App Development' started by sambhavjain7, Aug 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM.

  1. Me and 2 of my c++ buddies have been working on this for a year , built a full platform oms , rms , few connectors.

    looking for suggestions on how to sell it , we are just programmers with 0 sales experience.

    created this basic website for starters
    https://quomptrade.com/
     
  2. BMK

    BMK

    Your website looks good on the surface. Most of it is well written, in something that at least resembles American English, and your products are intriguing.

    But the links at the bottom of the page don't work. Either the links are not active (can't click on them), or they simply loop back to the top of the home page. So there is no privacy policy, no terms of service, no legal page. No formal name for the business, no physical address, no phone number, no contact information other than a web form.

    All that is kind of a red flag. Are you a real business? Or did you write the software, build the website, and are now trying to figure out how to start a business? Are you going to accept payment for a 90 day or one-year service period and then shut down or simply disappear?

    Q1. What does your product cost? Like, for an individual trader? Like, for example, one guy, who needs one login, might be trading four or five accounts in the USA, across two or more brokers, for himself and immediate family, or a small partnership, AUM ~ US$ 2 million, no securities license needed, these are retail accounts in which he is the account owner or has a personal relationship with the account owner. Would your platform even work for someone like that? 'Cause that's who you are talking to in this forum. That or people with a much lower AUM.

    Q2. Do you have live representatives who can provide telephone support during US market hours, and who can hold a conversation in English that is not heavily accented and difficult to understand? Or have you not figured that part out yet because you don't actually have any clients yet?

    This is what you need to be thinking about.

    If your product has a price point that is accessible to individual traders, maybe you should consider becoming a sponsor here on this forum:

    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/pages/advertise/
     
  3. fan27

    fan27

    How is your solution different from https://nautilustrader.io/ and https://tickblaze.com/ ? Both of those solutions are free.
     
  4. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    what you did was have ai build a front end and there is nothing else there.

    as we say in texas all hat and no cattle - go away scam someplace else..
     
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  5. Holy Grails aren't for sale. Cheap imitation Holy Grails are all over the web, though. Sold to amateur, hungry, naive suckers who are none the wiser. 97% will fail, or get market matching random returns only.
     
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  6. BMK

    BMK

    I am a tax advisor. I remember an education seminar some years ago where an accountant told me about a guy who had a cattle ranch and got audited. Or at least his tax return said he had a cattle ranch, but the IRS thought it was a hobby, and a bogus tax shelter, because...

    well, because the guy had a day job that had nothing to do with cattle ranching, and...

    he didn't have any cattle. LOL

    And that might be okay if the business was in a startup phase, ya know, but he had been running the business for years, without turning a profit, and without ever owning any cattle.

    Needless to say, the IRS didn't buy it.
     
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  7. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Or how about "putting the cart before the horse".

    Don't coders get contacted by prospective clients and build to their needs?

    Not the other way around.
     
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  8. Sekiyo

    Sekiyo

  9. BMK

    BMK

    @Sekiyo That looks like a movie set. How much did you pay to license that photo? LOL
     
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  10. There are a couple of made up sentences, like:

    "Built for market dominance"
    "Latency of <10ns"

    Dev bro is inside the CME data center.