Straight from the Bull » New Make a Trade Page Coming…

Oct 22
New Make a Trade Page Coming…

We’ve heard from many active users that placing Trades takes too long. So, we will consolidate the Make a Trade pages down from three to one true, full page load.

This should significantly decrease the amount of time time it takes to place trades which can be crucial for Day traders, or Survivors who simply want to lock in a fast-moving price.

Here’s a sneak preview of the new trade page which should be live around Halloween:

Redesigned Make A Trade page with the following features:

New Trade controls are laid out in a left-to-right row to emphasize the task flow; once something is selected, it should move to the next stage automatically. Clicking on a previous control takes you back.
Each step in the trade taskflow is highlighted with an explanation, which can be folded up into a minimal version by clicking the triangle in the corner
Trade logic is designed to prevent error messages. Each step presents only the possible options given the previous step, so it is impossible to select a trade chain that does not work; the only error message should be for a ‘Symbol Not Found’.
For Stop and Limit orders, a pop-up dialog allows the user to set the price. If selected incorrectly, they can just click elsewhere or press Esc to close the pop-up and reset that drop-down to ‘Type’.
If an order is a regular Market order, then the Duration control is greyed out.
Once a quantity is entered in the QTY box, then it should jump to the Preview stage automatically, and the information displayed should update dynamically if the user increments or decrements the QTY value, for instance, if they want to achieve a specific trade price, etc.
New column design with links at left, ad column at right incorporating the new tabbed content box