Contributors Tasks
From Open Forex Platform Wiki
This is a list of currently open and unassigned development tasks suitable for contributors to take to
- Forex News Indicator Extensions
The Platform contains a version of the Forex News Indicator, allowing important economic data to be plotted directly to the chart area. The task is to extend these capabilities up to par with the ones provided by the "FFCal" indicator found here: External Forum Link
- MetaTrader4 Expert/Indicator conversion utility
The goal is to allow automated running of MT4 epxerts and indicators on the Open Forex Platform. MT4 uses the "C" based MQL language.
- OANDA broker support
- Windows Vista Testing
The platform has not been tested extensively under Windows Vista and some small changes and modifications may need to be done in order to have it running in this OS
- Main Tab Control to support Drag and Drop of tabs
Allow the reordering of tabs in the Main Application Tab control.
- Custom Periodic Indicator
Developing a custom chart indicator that displays a separator based on a configurable time frame (for ex. every 4 hours etc.)
- Interactive Brokers API Integration
Integrating with the IB API to allow using IB providing brokers
* FIX Protocol Integration
Trough the usage of QuickFix Engine
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Parsing the Bloomberg.com news to provide a news feed
- (Under Consideration) Ruby language integration
Ruby is extremely flexible interpreted new language. It is very suitable for building things on the run time and testing them in real time. Integrating Ruby program ability in the Platform will open many new possibilities for very high speed trading strategies and module developments.
- Mono Migration
Migrate a version of the platform over to Mono to support non Windows OSes
- TCP Communication Functionality Port
Port the WCF layer of TCP/IP communication functionality used in the Arbiter module over to using an open source TCP/IP messaging framework - Code Project Article
