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Open Forex Platform is an open source financial instruments trading platform. It allows development of custom strategies and experts as well as conventional manual trading and back testing. The platform has the capability to integrate with other platforms to allow trading and data acquisition. The platform requires .NET Framework 3.0 or later to run.

The home page of the project is : http://www.openforexplatform.com

These are a couple screen shots from the platform in operation:

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Connectivity diagram illustrating the connectivity capabilities of the Platform (click for larger image)

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H.S.T. Solution Details

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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 [...]

Intermediate Version 0.8.1

Monday, September 07, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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 next week.

Connectivity Diagram

Monday, August 31, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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, [...]

H.S.T. (High Speed Trading) FIX Solution in the Making

Monday, August 10, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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 [...]

Version 0.8.RC1 Release

Monday, July 13, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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 [...]

Video Tutorials Part 2

Sunday, July 05, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

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 [...]

First Video Tutorials

Friday, July 03, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

This is the first two of a series video tutorials coming up to show what the new version can do and how it can be done.
The first tutorial shows how to integrate the Open Forex Platform to the MetaTrader4 terminal.
Click here for a full screen version.

And this one will give you an idea on [...]

Update

Sunday, June 28, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

The v.0.8 of the Platform is now ready and undergoing some final testing and bug fixing to make sure it is stable enough for general usage. The release is expected at the end of the week, both binaries and source code. Also the SVN source code repository will be updated Monday so this is a [...]

MBTrading Integration & Market Watch Component

Thursday, May 21, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

Two very important features are almost done, and will become available shortly on the CVS server as well as in the 0.8 application version.
MBTrading integration allows the Platform to connect to MBTrading server - consume live and historical data, and place orders. MBT provide a very large set of tradeable instruments, Forex, Futures, Stocks etc. [...]

Donations Now Possible

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

Open Forex Platform is now accepting donations trough the hugely popular Paypal system. In order to make a donation click the button at the top right corner of the web site main page. Donations are possible whether you have a Paypal account or not (directly trough a CC transfer) and transaction safety is guaranteed by [...]

Trading Instruments Set

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

Despite its name, the Open Forex Platform is capable of operating with any instrument provided by the Broker or Broker API (ETF, CFD, Futures, Metals, Indexes etc.). Although it started as a Forex only effort, a few years ago, the current source code and functionality have been developed, from the start, to be a versatile [...]

HST File Format Supported

Monday, April 06, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

The Open Forex Platform now supports reading data from the binary HST (Historical MT4 Quotes) files. There is a good source for HST one minute data, from Alpari, here: http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/dc/databank.php
The functionality for reading HST is already available trough the SVN source code repository, and will become part of the coming 0.8 release.

Next version overview…

Thursday, April 02, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

The coming 0.8 version of the Platform has been some time in the making and is now due in a 2-3 weeks time. It features a revised workspace, allowing easy usage of mutliple components at the same time, docked next to each other or free floating; also the long awaited internal data storage is up [...]

Wiki is here!

Thursday, February 19, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

The Platform now has its own wiki full of useful information on how to use the application and how the internals are designed. Also there is a list of the features version by version that will soon cover it all up to v.1
Get it here http://www.openforexplatform.com/wiki/

Version Released 0.7.RC1

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

After 2 months in the making, the new version of the platform is finally here! The package uploaded is marked as Release Candidate 1, so it is 99% of what the final version will be.
There has been changes and improvements in literary every part, piece and file of the platform. Integration with Meta Trader has [...]

Version 0.7.a Re-scheduled

Sunday, January 11, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

The currently developed version 0.7.a will be released later that the initially planned date - early this month. The reason is new features are being added to make for a complete package set when released. If you are anxious to see the current progress you can download the latest build and source package from the [...]

Forum Online

Thursday, January 01, 2009 | From Open Forex Platform

After a few days in the pit for a quick upgrade, the forum is now back online.

Technical Issues - Source Code

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | From Open Forex Platform

The latest source code (for ver.0.7.a) can now be found trough SVN access here:
http://code.google.com/p/openforexplatform/source/checkout
or trough SVN/Team Explorer or direct web browser download here:
http://www.codeplex.com/ofxp/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx
The release of ver.0.7.a is planned for 4.Jan.2009 and will include a revised news control, expert editor, integration to yahoo historical quotes as well as the usual set of overall improvements and extensions.

Technical Issues - SqLite

Sunday, December 07, 2008 | From Open Forex Platform

Open Forex Platform is adopting SQLite as its main data storage. SQLite is lightweight, free and has support for Mono. Having a proper (though lightweight) database as a data storage will now allow the prompt development of additional features including manipulation of large amounts of data items (news, historical quotes etc.).

Linux / MacOS Support in the Making

Friday, December 05, 2008 | From Open Forex Platform

As it turns out the Mono Project has seen some huge development over the last couple of years and this is great news since many .NET projects are becoming available to Linux based systems.
Open Forex Platform is no different. However since Mono does not cover .NET 3.0 completely the Arbiter Network Transport communication mechanism in [...]

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