Sometimes it’s a blessing to be a developer. These last few sweltering weeks, we’ve been lurking in server rooms, blasting industrial air-con, and doing our absolute best not to catch even a glimpse of natural light. While everyone else has succumbed to heatstroke, we’ve been steadily progressing, cool as cucumbers. There’s a lot of ground to cover in this update, from infrastructure to team, app to roadmap, so let’s get to it!

SafeDX servers ready for testing

On July 10th we met with our partners Quantasoft and SafeDX, one of Foxconn’s data centers. SafeDX gave us a full tour of their huge server rooms and our infrastructure for the servers has been finalized, currently being tested. We already received access and deployed the first of many strategies on them, carrying out some performance and integration tests. This marks a huge step forward, as we will be able to run the first full capacity stress-tests of our platform, with the necessary power to process thousands of algorithmic strategies simultaneously — no small feat!

Signals CEO Pavel Němec (left), Chief Software Architect Viktor Borza (middle) and CTO Pavel Volek (right)

Signals has grown

You may have seen that we have been actively looking for new developers over the last few months. We are glad to confirm we have recently hired one more backend developer and three new frontend developers, but there is still one open position to strengthen the backend team. If you’re interested you can apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/FE3BofHVXpWsrLfC3

This also poses a good opportunity to introduce you one of the core members of our team, who joined Signals few months ago: Chief Software Architect Viktor Borza, who brings with him a broad skill set that’s proving to be exactly what we needed. His experience has been very much welcomed, and in the short time he’s been with us he’s proved his leadership skills time and again. Viktor is mainly responsible for the architecture of the platform and the new Signals Framework , which will be used by developers while creating new custom strategies.

As a means of further introduction, here’s a rundown of Viktor’s background:

Platform Redesign

The Signals platform aims to be a place where the most advanced developers can coexist with regular traders, and that demands a great UI/UX design which is user friendly for everyone. This is one of our main focuses at the moment so we are working hard to redesign the website and the platform. It’s been coming along nicely, so we thought we should share a screenshot of the new look. As always, feedback is welcome!

Upcoming Milestones

We mentioned in our previous blogpost that our roadmap is undergoing some revision, to account for infrastructure upgrades and a growing team. While there will be a dedicated blog post covering this, we would like to introduce you to some of the details which we have been working on over the last months.

The new version of the Signals platform will include the new Data and Indicator Marketplaces. The former will feature a list of ticker data from Poloniex and other exchanges, while the latter will come with multiple Signals technical analysis indicators. Both marketplaces will also include examples for usage. Furthermore, as we work to improve the already existing Strategy Marketplace, we will also launch the My Strategies feature.

In My Strategies you will be able to code your own strategies using the new, public version of the Signals Framework, and our in-app editor. So far, we’ve had 650 developers register for early access, and expect to see many more in the coming months — to sign up, register using our designated form. Backtesting of strategies will also be available, bringing with it the ability to change indicators directly by amending their code, and granting access to performance metrics and chart visualizations. Once a strategy is backtested, you can then deploy it and start receiving notifications.

One more exciting new development we are working on is the first version of our Mobile App, where you will be able to receive notifications from all the strategies you are following, wherever you are. It will give you a detailed overview of each strategy and will be able to alert you via a push notification whenever there is a particular signal on any of your selected strategies. Again, we’ll be introducing this more fully in a dedicated post when the time is right.

That just about wraps things up for this month’s newsletter, so we hope you’re as excited as we are to see things come together. There’s no doubt that we’ve secured some of the best infrastructure we could’ve hoped for, and our dev team has been doing a fantastic job. We couldn’t have anticipated a more productive summer and we hope you feel the same. Get in touch and let us know your thoughts, we are really keen to make Signals the trading platform you’ve been dreaming of!