Recent content by sidewinder

More thinking of being able to hook up trading frontends such as TT, RTS and Pats, so all the risk etc can me managed. Get that sorted and some of the banks would probably lift their bans on spread betting.

From what I've seen, Spread Betting hasn't been considered a serious thing in the wider markets. I must admit until I started looking I always thought it was all sports bets etc. That's obviously changing now, so I wouldn't be surprised if some proper tools start appearing.

Still working on this. Seems most of the people I want to talk to are off sunning themselves somewhere, the lucky gits! From the few bods I did manage to chat to, they all drew a blank. One chap who was doing some back end work for www.spreadbetcheck.com said they'd been in discussion with...

You don't know car mechanics very well :D

I'll mention that as well. I'll report back when I've any more info. Anyway it's pub o'clock now :cheesy:

It's not a massive job, but the game is if you sell it it has to be supported. Then if the spread betting firm makes a change to their price feed yada yada.... To be honest I'm from a futures exchange background and all this spread betting lark isn't something I've had time for until now. From...

Never seen one to be honest as most of the firms seem to want to be platform independent. It's probably not too hard to build a .NET app that could to the price feed grab and publish, but there'd have to be a good market for the product before anyone (like me ;) ) would spend any time on it.