Professional forex traders from around the world converge at Forex Factory. Launched in March 2004, the website is designed exclusively to provide high-quality information that traders can apply in their pursuit of profits. Forex Factory is currently the #1 most viewed forex-related website, and the #2,365 most viewed website in the world, according to Alexa.

Every feature on the Forex Factory website is the result of an uncompromising design approach that’s focused on supporting forex traders. Features like adjustable time zone. which allows traders to view the entire website in their local time, make for efficient information gathering. Advanced search features, such as Google-based global search and searching by member post history, make it easier to find useful information. Features like the Member Impact Ranking System (MIRS ) lend context to opinions and analysis expressed by members. These features have been developed and refined for over ten years, collectively making the Forex Factory experience one of the richest available to traders.

The members of Forex Factory are some of the brightest minds in the trading world. Their intellect, experience, generosity, and humor gives life to the website and makes it an oasis for trading. Forex Factory is one of the few places on Earth where people from every country and every creed come together, put aside their differences, and work toward a common goal. This productive environment brings out the best in traders and allows them to progress by leaps and bounds.

Forex Factory stands on a strong infrastructure. The website is hosted with Rackspace, whose network is one of the fastest and most secure available. To further quicken the user experience, technologies such as page caching and load balancing are used extensively. Advanced systems have been developed to reduce noise and spam, which has resulted in an environment with relatively little distraction. These are just a few of the sophisticated web technologies that are used to optimize the speed, quality, and usefulness of information delivered on the website.

Forex Factory is not a social network and it’s not a portal. It’s simply a site that is dedicated to providing high-quality information (i.e. timely, reliable, insightful, and easy to access) that traders can apply in their pursuit of profits. This mission is pragmatically pursued through all means necessary, as evidenced by the diverse product mix hosted on the website.

Products

There are more posts made on Forex Factory each day than on any other trading forum in the world. Not just forex, but more active than any trading-related forum. Traders from almost every country in the world can be found interacting on the forums, sharing ideas, teaching, learning, debating, and swapping war stories. It’s a uniquely productive environment where professional discourse is the norm, supported by brilliant members and a moderation philosophy that puts trading above all else.

The Forex Factory Calendar is so innovative that it literally changed the way financial calendars are made. Before Forex Factory, calendars didn’t have impact ratings, adjustable time zones, detail views, filters, links to event sources, real-time data releases, economic charts – and the list goes on. These features have been copied so many times throughout the financial world that web developers no longer realize they are copying Forex Factory’s innovations! But it takes a lot more than an interface to deliver a quality economic calendar – Forex Factory employs a highly-trained team of economists who work around the clock to ensure the calendar is accurate and thorough. The Calendar is so legendary for its reliability and awareness that many competing calendars use Forex Factory as their main source! More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog .

While originally launched in 2007, News has undergone several radical redesigns. The most recent version, launched in 2011, introduced an entirely new approach to forex news, one which incorporates a wide-open submission policy with tight editorial controls. Forex Factory does not employ journalists; instead, the news structure is built to accept any story submitted by any member. Who Forex Factory does employ is a team of experienced editors who select which of the submitted stories actually gets posted on the website. In addition to posting the most useful and entertaining financial stories from around the web, the editorial team operates 24 hours a day to deliver breaking news as it impacts the market. More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog .

Market | Launched November 2009

The Market product consists of three innovative components: Scanner, Chart, and Sessions. All three are powered by Forex Factory’s Market Data Application (MDA), a sophisticated infrastructure built from the ground up to aggregate data from multiple brokers in real-time. By combining data from multiple sources, MDA provides a truer price that can be used to benchmark the prices from individual brokers, thereby bringing a trace of centralization to an otherwise OTC market. The Scanner and Chart are the only freely-accessed sources for currency price data based on multiple brokers. More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog or in the user guide .

The Trade Explorer is a web-based interface that empowers traders to intelligently analyze their trading performance. It not only helps evaluate historic performance, but it automatically synchronizes with the trader’s brokerage account to provide real-time analytical capabilities. While Explorer is a new product with much development remaining, it has already introduced a number of innovations. Powerful graphing capabilities, and features like auto-synchronizing, time zone control, and equity/balance controls, were first employed by Forex Factory. More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog or in the user guide .

Trades | Launched December 2011

The Trades product aggregates real-time trading activity from Forex Factory members who are using the Trade Explorer. It’s a window into the live brokerage accounts of thousands of traders, and a source of limitless insights and real-world education that can be capitalized by astute traders. Trades is made up of three applications: Trade Feed, Leaderboard, and Positions. The Trade Feed shows real-time trades made by members who opt to make their data publicly viewable, and the Leaderboard shows which of them are getting the best return this month. Both applications are customizable, allowing traders to see only trades made by their buddies on the Trade Feed, or setting the Leaderboard to annual performance instead of monthly, for example. The Positions application offers unprecedented insight into the aggregate open positions of forex traders. Data can be analyzed by lots or by traders, aggregate numbers are itemized, and the historical record is presented graphically. More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog .

The Brokers product is an advanced guide to properly-regulated forex brokers. The guide represents a breakthrough in the way traders research brokers, combining up-to-date information, extensive detail, and real-time spreads – all wrapped in a versatile interface. The information on the broker guide is actively maintained by Forex Factory staff, who research and monitor the listed brokers on a daily basis, ensuring traders are analyzing the freshest information possible. The ‘Spreads’ section pulls rates from each broker’s standard live account, in real-time, and displays the current spread in terms of pips. All spreads are representative of what ‘standard-account’ traders are seeing on their platform, and no demo accounts are included. More information can be found on the Forex Factory blog .