Key Features

FXOne is a multi-patent pending, full featured, institutional quality trading platform designed for ease of use.   FXOne is valuable to a wide range of traders, from beginners doing manual click trading to experienced traders developing fully automated trading systems.  This section provides an overview of the platform's key features.

 

Replicates Broker Platform Functionality

FXOne brings together the functionality of the broker's native platform together with its high value added functionality, so you can manage all your trading within a single application.  

The standard capabilities include the following information:

• Customizable Dealing Rates Panel for viewing changing Bid and Ask prices and initiating trades  
• Accounts panel for viewing account information such as balance, equity, available margin, etc.
• Summary panel for viewing open positions rolled up by instrument
• Orders panel for viewing all pending orders, stop loss and take profit levels and more
• Trades panel for viewing each individual open position
• Closed Trades panel for viewing all closed trades for the current trading day
• Access to account reports in HTML, PDF or .csv format for viewing trading activity over extended periods

 

Embedded Spreadsheets

FXOne has many powerful features, but the embedded spreadsheet engine is the core that brings them all together and makes it possible to easily do things that can't be done in any other retail trading platform available.   

Some key features include:                   

• Plain vanilla Excel formulas, no programming language to learn                         
• 300+ standard Excel Functions including financial functions and the Analysis Toolpack 
• Virtually all Excel capabilities with real-time data, backtesting and fully automated trading with nothing more than Excel formulas                                                                                    
• No Microsoft Office or Excel license is needed                          
• No troublesome plug-ins, add-ons or VBA required                
• Faster calculations and lower latency trades than Excel and MetaTrader with no bridges used            
• Copied formulas from Excel just work                         
• Growing library of workbook templates with pre-built indicators, trading logic and visualizations       
• Custom functions for accessing virtually any real time account information including P/L, Positions, Orders, etc.
• Spreadsheet based backtesting and forwardtesting simulations for full transparency and customization of statistics and reporting

 

More Data, Better Data

FXOne has more data options than the broker's platform and better data than other competing platforms. 

• More data frequencies than the broker's native platform
• Real time data on any custom frequency  
• Historical data on any custom frequency for backtesting and analysis
• Event based trading using tick level Bid and Ask prices
• Automatic data initialization every time you open a workbook, or recover from an internet interruption
• Tools for easily adding data to a spreadsheet
• Tools for easily changing the data in a spreadsheet oin the fly
• Custom data aggregations such as Mid-point of the Bid and Ask
• All data including historical data is queried on demand from the brokers servers

 

Charts and Graphs, Custom Dashboards

FXOne allows even beginners to create any kind of custom visualization without any programming.

Custom Excel charts, graphs and tables updating with real time data

Wide range of chart types

Create custom dashboards consisting of any data you can create using spreadsheet formula functions and logic 

Custom spreadsheet functions that update in real time with any available information by account or by specified symbol

 

Trading Like No Other Platform 

FXOne has the most powerful yet incredibly easy to use trading capabilities.

More order types than the broker's native platform

Click trading like the broker's trading platform from the menu or the Dealing Rates Panel 

Formula based automated trading using custom functions with support for any available order type

Custom trading functions for Cancel, Cancel and Replace and OCO orders

Stop, Limit and Close orders and their US FIFO account equivalents     

Custom functions for real-time feedback loop

Global Variables set and retrieved with custom functions

Semi-Automated trading with a Proposed Trades panel for viewing trades

Fully-Automated trading

Trading options to simplify trading logic

Risk control features such as automatic disableing of trading upon interruption of internet connection 

 

Platform Architecture Advantages

FXOne has many fundamental architectural advantages over other competing platforms.

• Truely event based data and trading messages unthrottled by the platform 
• Low latency trading directly against the broker's own API with no bridge in the middle
• Multi-threaded trading, with any number of strategies able to trade concurrently
• No four or five digit compatibility issues
• No local data cache from an unknown source
• Support for any broker provided symbols, regardless of asset class