{"id":14618,"date":"2010-11-01T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2010-11-01T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:26:00","slug":"forex-trading-software-and-its-impact-on-online-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/01\/forex-trading-software-and-its-impact-on-online-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex Trading Software And Its Impact On Online Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Daniel Shaw<\/strong> &#8211; For a long time only big investors and banks had an access to the  international Forex market. With the development of the internet  everything changed and today any investor is able to make transactions  in Forex market in the internet. Forex software is a necessary tool for  the analysis of the Forex market rates and the connection between a  trade and an online brokerage company. Despite of the variety of  programs and software in the Forex market, there is a number of  applications familiar to almost every currency trader and become an  integral part of online Forex trading. In this article we will discuss  the necessity and functionality of some of the Forex programs.<\/p>\n<p>Forex software can be roughly classified into so-called trading  platforms and programs for markets analysis. The difference between  them is that the trading platform helps the traders perform the  transactions of buy or sale of a foreign currency from the  application;s interface, while programs for markets analysis can  only analyze data without any possibility of communication with a broker  and making transactions. Almost all programs allow you to download not  only the historical quotes of the currencies but also the real-time  quotes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important features of Forex software is that they allow  you to work not only with the foreign currencies but also any other  traded instruments such as futures, stocks, CFDs, indices and others.  The point is that the indicators of technical analysis used for Forex  may with same efficiency work for other financial markets. More than  that many indicators we use today were originally developed for trading  in futures or stocks, and only later were used for Forex. Most Forex  programs are universal and built on a general principle. Therefore, once  you study one Forex program, you can easily learn the others as well  and apply them other financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>Every trader must have a trading platform. Weather it is a downloadable  or web software you cannot trade without it. The platform is represented  by a broker who provides the traders with all needed data via the  trading terminal. There are tens of different trading platforms that you  can find online. All of them allow the traders execute the transactions  of buy or sell and manage their funds. One of the most popular Forex  software today is the trading platform Meta Trader 4 (MT4). Most of the  Singapore brokers work with MT4 trading software, though you can also  find such platforms as ACT, eToro and others available for trading.<\/p>\n<p>Though every broker may apply different trading conditions on his Meta  Trader platform, still there are specific features that can be found in  MT4. This trading terminal allows trading with different instruments  link Forex, commodities, Futures, Indices, etc. It offers a big variety  of technical analysis tools and indicators that help a trader in his  work. Besides it is possible to install your own software of indicators  to the MT4 and automate your trading. MT4 trading platform allows you to  build an unlimited number of graphics with different time frames,  receive financial news from your broker and has an internal e-mail. In  addition to the PC version, the MT4 has a terminal for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Daniel Shaw is an experienced Forex trader and a webmaster. His site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trading Platforms Singapore<\/a><\/strong> will teach you different trading strategies and provide you with the latest updates about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tradinginsingapore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore online brokerage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Shaw &#8211; For a long time only big investors and banks had an access to the international Forex market. 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