Market Scanner launched

January 15th, 2015

Six years ago we introduced the first composite forex market data, merging feeds from several brokers into a single price. Weve never stopped believing in the value of composite data its a truer representation of the market than any single feed and over the years weve worked to include more brokers, reduce data lag to nearly zero, and make the interface easier and more powerful. These efforts have culminated in the development of the new Market Scanner:

The Scanner is new from the ground up. Its powered by our new, blazing-fast data aggregation engine, MDA. which collects and calculates prices from scores of leading forex brokers with virtually no lag.

The interface features real-time charts, spread analysis, and even individual brokers rates and everything updates automatically when Live is checked:

The best thing about the Scanner is its flexibility. You can change the currencies displayed, the metrics tracked, the colors used, and even the name of the block:

The Scanner is part of the Market product, and as of today it was added as a default block on the Homepage. Remember, you can adjust the position of the block with the new page arrangement feature.

We hope the Scanner makes a positive impact on your trading! If you have any questions or suggestions, make sure to comment or contact us were always interested in feedback from you guys!

Posted by David, Forex Factory General Manager

Arrange your pages

January 9th, 2015

We just launched a feature that allows you to customize the layout of FF pages. The controls for arranging a block appear when hovering over its header:

Your Homepage is especially flexible. Blocks can be moved, removed, and added. You can even have multiple block instances, allowing you to do things like have two calendars with different filters applied.

To add a block to your homepage, go to its native page (e.g. the Positions block is native to the Trades page) and click the copy-to-home icon:

Now that you have so much control over your pages, make sure youre familiar with the Default Page link in the footer it resets the page back to the default arrangement and settings.

To learn more about how page arrangement works, please read the user guide. And keep in mind were not done with this feature were working toward having all blocks addable to your Homepage, and allowing arrangement on all pages. If you have any suggestions, let us know.

Posted by Scot, Forex Factory Senior Developer

Website header redesigned

July 31st, 2014

We just launched an improved header for the website! The new design increases above-the-fold content and makes the most important links accessible from any screen.

The header increases above-the-fold content (i.e. content shown on the initial screen) by 80 pixels, which might not seem like much, but over time itll save active users hours of scrolling. To illustrate the advantage, the images below show 300 pixels of height before and after the redesign notice how many more calendar events are showing now:

300px Before 300px After

Another big advantage of the new header is that it sticks all major navigational elements to the top of every page. While the old design kept the product links stuck, the new design also sticks your username, logout link, site time, and the search input. All major links are now available from anywhere on the website, making it easier to get to where you want to be.

We hope you like the new design! If you encounter any bugs or have feedback, wed love to hear from you please comment or contact us .

Posted by Scot, Forex Factory Senior Developer

FF at FXIC

June 24th, 2014

We just got back from FXIC in New York City it was a fantastic event! We met lots of colleagues and learned a ton from the excellent speakers. And we gave away 500 Forex Factory t-shirts!