Questions and Answers about Project

Q1. It is written in paragraph1, ‘The system will notify users in accordance with their alerts. And, importantly will make predictions about trading equipment.’ In this context who make predictions, user or system or both?
A1: User based predictions by selecting whether it will **increase** or **decrease**, without any percentage or level. But users may make predictions daily, weekly, or monthly. There may be more time intervals to make predictions.

Q2. How long will be predicted? One week, one month etc.?
A2: Daily predictions, or additionally week and month optional

Q3. What are the main differences between guest/basic user and trader? Is there any possibility for basic user to become trader?
A3: Basic user cannot become a trader, that option should be selected when signing into the application.

Q4. What do you mean with semantic search? User portfolios are given as an example for search, but what will we compare in this context?
A4: Will be decided as design choice.

Q5. What do you mean with similar portfolios? Currency, or amount?
A5: Similarity comes with by choosing same parities in two portfolios.

Q6. Is equipment a real life medium, or just created for the sake of this project? Give brief examples, please.
A6: Real life currencies, bonds, stocks etc.

Q7. How can user have more than one portfolio? What does portfolio exactly include?
A7: Portfolio includes parities which user selects for its desire to check the difference in a selected time.

Q8. Should all changes in profit/loss section be logged by the system?
A8: Yes, it should.

Q9. Can user delete specific investment in profit/loss section?
A9: Basic user deletes specific investment whereas trader do not.

Q10. When adding a new investment in profit/loss section by manually, does user enter both buying and selling quantity?
A10: Yes, the parity of that exact transaction should be calculated via those informations.

Q11. How will we reach events? Who decides event’s significance level?
A11: Events are planned to be taken via third party application that provides economic events to our application. Third party application decides the significance level of events.

Q12. What do you mean with ‘user can chase economic events’? In this context, do we have to use filter in searching? If so what are the key words for searching?
A12: In this context, **chasing** is used to explain the request that one user should set an alarm to a specific event, thus at the desired time, user should get a notification via e-mail or screen notification.

Q13. How do we decide which event belongs to which country?
A13: Events should include which country they come from.

Q14. Can an event affect any country? If so do we have to show that event if we search for related country?
A14: No, country cannot be affected by an event.

Q15. In event section, can user search for multiple key words? If possible, what will be the result? AND of key words, OR of key words or etc?
A15: Yes, user can select time or country filters to get more accurate results regarding to its wish. Unlike keywords, user may select countries to see their economic events at that time.

Q16. Are order of results important when searching?
A16: Yes, the order depends on time by standard, unless user prioritizes another option such as country or significance level.

Q17. What should be the search results? Based on users or portfolios?
A17: Will be decided as design choice.

Q18. Is the search bar of event section same as primary search bar? We’ve thought that as seperate.
A18: Will be decided as design choice.

Q19. What’s the regulation in these instructions? “make a buy order at a specific rate” “set stop/loss limits” Is it an automated script that prevents a trader to lose more than his/her specific rate of loss?
A19: Trader user may create an automated request that buys or sells a medium when the parity ratio is higher or lower a specific parity ratio that user decides. At that time, system makes a transaction and the income of that transaction should be deposit on user's bank account.

Q20. What’s the dynamic behind following system?
A20: Following system includes that one user should send a follow request to another and will be able to see other person's profile if and only if other user accepts that request. Vice versa is the same.

Q21. Is following symmetric? Anyone who follows person X should be followed by person X or whoever follows person X may not be followed by person X back.
A21: Explained in Q21.

Q22. What’s the determining factors in prediction success rate?
A22: Prediction success rate will be determined as the ratio of true predictions over all predictions. But there will be a limit to make a prediction to avoid a situation that includes higher prediction rate but a few predictions.

Q23. What’s the format of prediction success rate? Should it be in a time interval or the percentage whoever is the closest via his/her prediction to the actual rate of medium on that day?
A23: Explained in Q1.

Q24. Are users allowed to see their transaction results?
A24: Trader users may see their transaction results by only themselves. It is private, none is allowed to see it.

Q25. Is there any option that allows users to clear their transaction history?
A25: No, there will be no option to clear transaction history, but filtering will be applied to detect past activities.