BillBoshTwo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:49 pm
ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:55 pm
but I'd never used it.... so I'll abstain from voting and leave the scrap to the interested parties.
Shaun, I respect your views

but I have no use for much of the manual stuff available in BA but I don't vote things down when others suggest things. Maybe I should.
I don't vote things down, but I'm also not going to vote for things I don't need either, hence the abstention. I'm ok leaving that to people who have skin in the game.
With BA having a very limited development budget then personally, I'd freeze it for 12months and focus on giving some areas a radical 2018 re-write rather than tinkering. A step back in order to go forward so to speak. First thing I'd do would be to allow Guardian to run in asynchronous mode and ditch the way it has to cycle, that would certainly pep things up a bit and help all the guys who complain about having to run multiple BA's. I'd also improve the reporting side a LOT too so that you could analyse your results by automation strategies much easier, or chart your entries and exits if you're a manual guy. BA is a good front office product but an equally impressive back office with daily/weekly/monthly reporting would be something to help maintain it's best of breed status. I know there's always Excel but not everyone wants to or has the skills to design and write analytics and the current BA exports are a bit clunky.
I come from a position of being involved with a city product that totally dominated from about 85 until 05, it was in 95 of the top 100 asset management firms, but they didn't re-invest heavily enough, and now it's pretty much vanished. The time you feel dominant is the time you're most vulnerable. BA's architecture has it's roots in 2005, if it's still going to be best of breed in 2025, maybe it's time for version 2.xx rather than another 1.xx?