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Open Forex Platform is an open source financial instruments trading platform. It features custom developed charts and GUI, 100+ trading indicators, back testing on historical data and working on live trading accounts. It also has the capability to integrate with other platforms to allow trading and data acquisition.
This wiki contains information on how to use the Platform, how to extend it, what components and systems it contains already as well as general project information.
Contents |
Getting started
Documents geared towards developers and contributors, the information inside is accessible to anyone interested
- Architecture Overview
- Coding Standards
- Source Code how to obtain the latest sources, how the solution is organized
- Building the Project
- Running the Project from Source Code
Tutorials and answers to common questions to get you started
- MetaTrader Integration tutorial; this also learns you how to work with the Adapter infrastructure
- Manual Trading tutorial
- Manual Back Testing to Historical Data tutorial
- How to Develop Your Own Expert tutorial, shows how to create a simplified expert by using the ExpertManagement editor platform component
- Building a Complex Expert tutorial, provides information how to build a detailed complex fully featured expert
- How To Build a Custom Data Source tutorial, shows you how to build a data source.
- New Video Tutorials
Platform Technical Documentation - Systems
The Systems of the Platform are each comprised of multiple classes that work together to provide a certain service or functionality
- Charting
- User Interface
- Experts
- Diagnostics
- Persistence
- Operation Monitor
- Platform Components
- Historical Market Data Storage
- Order Management
- Configuration Files
- Communication Messages
- Indicators
Platform System Components
Each of these components may have only one running instance at a time
- Diagnostics Component
- News Component
- Expert Management Component, also allows creation and editing of existing experts
- Data Store Component
Platform Custom Components
Custom user oriented components
Ongoing Development Pages
- Contributors Tasks
- Tasks Version.0.5 complete.
- Tasks Version.0.6 complete.
- Tasks Version.0.7 complete.
- Tasks Version.0.8 complete July.15th.2009.
- Tasks Version.0.9 expected release Jul.2010.
Next versions are to be instead superseded with a new product line, that is an evolution of the current Open Forex Platform project.
