Hi,
Guy from SIFT here. I wanted to try and respond to the points you've raised.
1. Domain privacy service.
We do indeed use domain privacy. Those of you that register domains know the huge amount of spam and service offerings that are received. I've posted my LinkedIn profile publicly - it's in the Whitepaper and refered from almost every article about us. I've also included links to my personal YouTube channel, Twitter feed and my university research profile. James doesn't use social media publicly but did open his feed up to Smith & Crown to publicly verify his identity. I'd hope that provides some degree of personal identity. These links are on pretty much every post written about SIFT and on almost all listings. From a personal perspective I've promoted SIFT within my LinkedIn feed - a network of people I've worked with over a decade and built up long-term contacts from. We've got people investing that I've worked with and established long relationships with. I appreciate that you don't know that but from my own perspective I've put my personal identity and reputation behind this so I very much want to show that.
2. Years of experience. This is referenced a couple of pages into the whitepaper with URLs in the footnotes including a link to a thread in ForexFactory that started back in 2009 going through the product in its various evolutions from Pipbuilders to Smart Trader and SmartVSA.com and the other services that have been offered related to it (Trade Relayer, etc.). The ForexFactory thread is about 450 pages long and mostly covers the period of 2009 to 2012 when initial client base was built up. There are also G+ and Facebook groups that discuss it further as well as a few Smart clients that have joined our Telegram room. I appreciate you reference that ForexFactory hasn't got much activity - later on - it's mainly promotion - but it does initially and if you search for the history it's not exactly hidden online.
3. Website standards.
I appreciate the site isn't as whizzy as it could be - actually there's a new version we're working on aside from all this but with a focus on delivering the products and no major issues that have come from it our focus has been on development of core functionality rather than marketting assets. For one of the best delivering funds take a look at their website
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ - shiny web standards that become outdated very quickly are a representation of nothing more than a small spend focussing on that area. We do plan a relaunch of a site, probably in 2018, when we release some major new changes to our volume analysis - but it's not been a priority.
I'd highly recommend joining our Telegram room - we've been posting trade analysis from our systems as we've had it come in over the last few weeks. This has included us announcing our exit criteria and price levels. We've then been posting again with corresponding signals in real time following the trades on. Even if you doubt our history (of which there is plenty) then the trade and chart analysis we've put out during the ICO has been completely accurate so far - we've detailed expressly when we would not be trading as well even in a market that seems like it would support it, rather than just riding the recent highs. There are a tonne of ICOs out there that cannot deliver this or show any proof of product. You can go and purchase ours today - you'll also get a tonne of help setting it up and using it if you do (not for Crypto but for forex) and if you want to see where we are with crypto then our Telegram can show that.
The parent company was registered for the ICO specifically to be based in the UK and to move IP there as a USA comapny base (which is where the original product started) would be highly inappropriate. This is the case with almost every ICO, it just happens in our case it's a relocation.
I do appreciate your concerns and if there's anything practical I can do beyond pointing all this out - I will. In the interim regardless of this we've got a fully functional product that we're showing off on a daily basis rather than a product we promise to build in the future or that will be ready once the ICO is complete. From our perspective this immediately puts us in a stronger position than many other ICOs.
If anybody feels this isn't the investment for you I understand, but I'd hope this can alleviate most people's concerns. If you've got further questions come and talk to use directly and engage with us on Telegram - we'd love to hear from you
https://t.me/SmartIFTThanks,
Guy @ SIFT