Open Forex Platform

New Release(s) Coming February 7, 2010

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There have not been many improvements lately on the platform, but this was for a good reason - we were hard at work rolling out our new software platform, that will become the basis of what is essentially the Ofxp.2.

We are now close to a first release of this general .NET development platform, and it is coming around the end of this month. The platform is a huge improvement over the current underlying infrastructure, and will allow us to compose and provide new products much faster.

Once its out, we shall also do a release (v.0.9) of the Forex Platform to put out a binary set for all the improvements that were done on the current SVN branch (there is more info on those in the Wiki). This version will than serve as a migration basis for the brand new OFxP versions that are coming along.

FXCM adapter in operation December 9, 2009

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The FXCM adapter, allowing to trade trough the FXCM Order 2 GO API is now in operation on the latest version of the platform (currently accessible on the SVN only). It is capable of retrieving data, and executing orders, as well as reporting position state. Individual orders reporting support to be added soon. You can use it to trade the full instrument set of items offered by FXCM, not limited to forex only.

In order to use it, on demo or real account, you need to get access to the FXCM Order 2 GO API (accessible trough this forum) and enter the account details in your adapter settings. Registering new demo accounts for forex trading can be done here.

Big plans, small steps November 18, 2009

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We have started developing the infrastructure for what essentially will become the second version of the platform. Combination of new elements with parts of the existing solution will allow us to quickly catch up with the changing conditions on the trading market and provide a new cutting edge trading application suite. More details to follow as soon as we are closer to a first release of the redesigned system.

In the mean time, small but constant bug fixes and improvements are being done on the current solution (faster thread pool, improved MBTrading integration now provides Equity and correct position information, also extended support for complex order types on back-testing, thanks to Burt99). All of those available on the latest code on the SVN.

H.S.T. Solution Details September 16, 2009

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The first Open Forex Platform FIX based integration has successfully been live tested and verified, and is now available for usage. For this one we utilized the power of the excellent open source QuickFIX engine. The integration currently provides direct access to a number of very high volume liquidity providers (incl. commercial banks) and is suitable for both High Speed Trading and high volume manual trading.

This integration component is also our first premium component; it is aimed mainly at industrial sized integrations, rather than individual traders and we have decided to offer it exclusively with a support package, full production documentation and design documents (all currently available), as well as the usual complete solution source code. For details on the specific conditions of obtaining the component, please contact us directly at sales@openforexplatform.com.

* FIX is an industry leading standard designed for executing network electronic trading, more details can be found here.

Intermediate Version 0.8.1 September 7, 2009

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We have decided to release an intermediate version of the platform [0.8.1.RC1] containing a bunch of fixes and improvements over the last [0.8.RC1]. The improvements are mostly fixes of functionality bugs as well as some small optimizations and stability improvements (a list can be found here). The [0.8.1.RC1] shall be available by the end of this month.

Connectivity Diagram August 31, 2009

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This is a simple diagram, that gives an idea what are the current connectivity capabilities of the platform. Our goal is to ultimately have the most connect capable financial solution possible. The list of tradeable items is already rather substantial, including not only Forex, but Futures, Stock and Options as well. In the coming months, along with other developments, we shall provide more GUI and business entities to simplify and extend the usability of the traded assets groups.

H.S.T. (High Speed Trading) FIX Solution in the Making August 10, 2009

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We have been working on a FIX protocol based production level solution, that will allow for execution of High Speed Trading strategies. It will also provide an integration to a much higher level in the market chain, thus offering a very highly cost effective offering for high intensity / volume trading. The solution is entering testing phase, so more details are to follow soon.

Version 0.8.RC1 Release July 13, 2009

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The v 0.8 of the Open Forex Platform is now publicly available for download. As already seen in the video tutorials, we have tried to make it much more user friendly and simple to use. The UI versatility has been hugely improved while the underlying code was re factored to allow building experts more easily and handle new broker integrations much faster, along with support for positions management and tick data. Each and every part has been improved or superseded by a new one (DataStore component introduced) so this new version gives a much better idea what the 1.0 will be.

To run it you need the latest Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (SP1).

Download v 0.8 (x64/x86) http://www.openforexplatform.com/files/versions/OpenForexPlatform.0.8.RC1.zip

As usual, the complete source code is available trough the SVN. If you have any problems with the version, please let us know directly (support at openforexplatform.com) or trough the forums.

Video Tutorials Part 2 July 5, 2009

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Here is the second pair of video tutorials coming with the release of the 0.8 version.

This will show you how to work with data components, both live and stored.

Click here for a full screen version.

And this one shows how the user interface can be configured and customized. The visual artifacts that appear from time to time in this movie are due to the capturing process, so it is something we shall try to fix for future tutorials.

Click here for a full screen version.