Improve layout
A designer has been contacted for suggestion, but we might not end up using him.
Anyway. The basic idea for the UI is to have a sticky filter box on top, and the complete list of all contracts the user has access to underneath, sorted by market, contractset and finally the order of contract defined by the administrator.
The filter box will allow free text filtering on titles and descriptions (maybe with highlighting of matched text) and by closing time, whether the user owns stock in a given contract, and so on.
The contracts in the list will initially be in a collapsed state, and can be clicked to expand, revealing further information and controls.
At the far top there should be a toolbar like thingy with the users avatar (use gravatar?), his current account and portfolio balance and a collection of links to a help text, a ranking page, a personal transaction history page and so on.
Tages-anseiger also wants a clickable logo or something at the top.