Feature requests

[Daryl]

Mark,

Great program! Some items on my wishlist.

1. Add an option to allow custom text to accompany an email alert. For example, I could then get an email: =============================================
XYZ Corp crossed below alert price.

Alert Price: 40.377
Current Price: 40.170
Date: 7/29/2008
Time: 11:42 AM

Note: Time to buy more!! (OR maybe time to SELL)
==============================================


2. Would also like to cascade alerts. For example, a strategy I might use would be to change an alert to a Trailing Stop of 10% once the price is 25% over my buy price.

3. Would also like to have an option to send a SMS alert (via my VOIP provider, or other online SMS service) - pager alerts are fast becoming old technology.

I'm looking forward to playing with the FM9 beta.

Thanks
Daryl

[k_kirk]

On this note, a killer feature could be if you could host a service to generate the alerts. In other words, we would use client side FM9.x to define the alert criteria but then would not need to keep FM running to receive the alert and the server side applet would send us the alert when the condition is met. I am finding that FM is not active on my PC all day since I'm not a day-trader and have a full time job where I'm not even allowed to install FM on my work PC etc. Just a thought.

[Mark]

Hi Daryl and k_kirk,

Interesting ideas, thanks for the suggestions. I can see these being helpful.