Roadmap

Planned features and improvements, roughly prioritised. Complexity is in story points (1 = trivial, 13 = major effort).

Recently completed

Feature	Purpose	Complexity
System status bar	Header showing market data depth, service health, and data quality warnings	5
Upgrade-in-progress banner	Orange pulsing banner when system upgrade in progress, admin-toggled via API	2
E2E user workflow tests	12 Playwright tests covering equity, algo, risk rejection, system status, and order expiry	8
Multi-select on grids	Checkbox column, shift-click range, ctrl-click toggle in order blotter	3
Right-click context menus	Hold, unhold, cancel, force kill — permission-gated by role	5
Symbol search bar	Typeahead search on symbol, RIC, BBG, ISIN with Bloomberg trade paste parser	5
Identifier aliases	RIC, BBG ticker, ISIN, and company names on all 270+ instruments	3
User guide documentation	7 pages with auto-generated screenshots and stale-detection mapping	5
Registry-driven panel factory	Plugin-ready panel system — registerPanel() replaces 100-line switch	3
Kafka consumer crash watchdog	Auto-reconnect on Redpanda group eviction — eliminates manual restarts	2
No-any enforcement	noExplicitAny: "error" in biome — builds fail on any usage	2
Signals-first migration	All 80+ useState calls migrated to useSignal (8 remain for React interop)	5
Type system strengthening	OrderSide, branded IDs, ObsEventType union, OrderFillPayload, tightened FillEvent	5

High priority

Feature	Purpose	Complexity
Alert / notification system	Severity-tiered notifications with criteria builder, shared filter presets, red overlay for emergencies	13
SNIPER / IS / MOMENTUM fixes	Root-cause venue book data gaps causing consistent algo test failures in CI	3
Kafka message type tests	Compile-time assertion tests (tsd/expectType) verifying JSON parse results match typed interfaces	3
LLM trade parsing	Enhance the trade paste parser with Ollama for natural language trade instructions	5
True reference data source	Replace deterministic identifiers with a real symbology provider (OpenFIGI, LSEG)	5

Medium priority

Feature	Purpose	Complexity
Keyboard shortcuts	Ctrl+N new order, Escape cancel ticket, arrow keys in grids	3
Audit trail panel	Compliance/admin view showing every state change for an order with timestamps	5
Watchlist panel	Persistent symbol lists with live prices and configurable columns	5
Shared DataGrid component	Extract a common grid with consistent column formatting, sorting, filtering, and row styling	5
Electron integration	Wrap the frontend as a desktop app with native menus and pop-out panels	8
Load / performance testing	Stress-test the full pipeline to measure throughput limits and find bottlenecks	5
Per-service architecture pages	Clickable Mermaid nodes linking to dedicated pages showing internals and key functions	5
Progressive branded ID adoption	Apply OrderId, UserId, ChildOrderId brands to interface fields and creation sites	5

Low priority

Feature	Purpose	Complexity
Path-filtered CI	Only run backend/frontend/docs jobs when relevant paths change	3
Single-panel test mode	?panel=order-blotter query param renders one panel full-screen for rapid iteration	2
VaR (Value at Risk)	Historical and parametric VaR using return distributions from journal data	8
Backtesting engine	Replay historical market data through algo strategies to evaluate performance	13
Dark pool analytics	Post-trade reporting on dark pool fill rates, price improvement, and information leakage	5
Multi-leg order support	Spread, straddle, and butterfly orders across the OMS → algo → EMS pipeline	8
FIX 4.4 conformance	Align FIX message tags and session-level behaviour with the FIX 4.4 specification	5