cTrader.
One of the most popular platforms in the world to trade on FOREX and CFD markets.
cTrader platform provides access to trading on the currency exchange markets using the NDD (No Dealing Desk) technology for professional traders and for newbies as well. It allows users to trade with the international banks directly, avoiding any intermediaries in the live trading atmosphere.
Easily adjustable proxy servers allow quick connection from any location, overcoming any barriers. The platform supports 14 languages.
cTrader platform gives an opportunity to open an order in any window of the platform, even from a chart. The average speed of the order execution is less than one millisecond, which allows users to make transactions at the exact moment with the minimum slippage. Also, this becomes possible due to the cloud technology and placing servers on one platform with the majority of quotes aggregators and liquidity providers.
Depth of Market of cTrader platform offers the full selection of quotes of liquidity providers. The platform provides maximum transparency of the offered prices and relevant volumes. The high liquidity, asynchronous spot prices and small delays guarantee minimum spreads.
Charts in cTrader platform are designed with regard to the traders’ requirements. In the charts window there are all the necessary instruments for technical analysis and search of the trading signals. You can use analytical indicators from the library of the platform (includes all main indicators, oscillators, volatility indices) or create your own ones, as well as combine them. Charts have 14 standard time frames, including 2 minutes, 4 minutes and 12 hours, that will meet any trading strategy. Traders who use the cAlgo trading platform may create and use their own indicators.
The ChartShots function allows share shots of any chart momentarily with the two clicks. The platform creats a unique URL where the chart will be displayed with all settings, including scale, color scheme and technical analysis indicators. This link of the chart image can be sent via e-mail, uploaded to your blog, Facebook or Twitter (or 300 more resources).
The platform also has more powerful and visual function of displaying charts – ChartCasts. It allows building in “live charts” to a website or a blog. Charts are displayed in the exact way you have created them, with settings of the technical analysis indicators, periods and color scheme. Visitors of your website can change the way of displaying charts in their browser without changing its initial settings. This option is ideal for traders who want to discuss trading strategies or demonstrate them on live examples.
Amongst the other useful functions there are:
Several accounts with different basic currencies Quick switch between demo and live accounts. cTrader has a handy function for designing and saving templates to use them further. All charts can be opened in a separate window with full functionality of the platform. Information about the opening and closing of trading sessions on the world financial markets, which is often critical for decision making. Full integration with cAlgo analytical platform.
cTrader Web.
Trade from any part of the world with any device with any display size.
cTraderWeb provides access to trading on the financial markets through a Web-browser, which enables you to trade regardless of your location and device that you use.
Advantages of working with the cTraderWeb platform:
Trade from any location where there is Internet. The platform works with all main Internet browsers A single account with cTrader Depth of Market option Instruments for technical analysis One click trade.
Open a Terminal Window cTraderWeb.
cTrader Automate.
cTrader Automate (former cAlgo) — is a solution for algorithmic trading completely integrated into the cTrader trading platform.
With the help of cTrader Automate traders can create EA’s and configurable indicators on a popular coding language ‘C#’ and consequently test and optimize them using broad functionality of API cTrade.
There are millions of developers who already use ‘C#’, so there’s no need to learn the language from scratch, one can always find someone who could create the code for them.
The code can be easily uploaded using the Plug and Play function.
The network of developers.
The network of cTrader developers is a specialized community of traders and developers where you can discuss share and develop collectively trading robots and indicators.
The services provided by the community allow you to upload and download robots and indicators, to blog and to comment on robots and indicators created by other users.
Also, here you can find the full documentation on API and the “Help” section on cTrader.
cTrader Automate API.
The code of the trading robots and indicators can be written with the usage of Visual Studio or the code editor.
The code editor has been designed for comfortable coding with search fields that can help you find the right parts of the code, and an auto-fill option for fast and intuitive coding.
Autotrading Plug and Play.
The ‘Plug and Play’ functions allows one to upload an EA or an indicator (or to download it from other network’s members) and press ‘Play’ to immediately start trading avoiding complicated installing procedures.
You can run cBots in seconds thanks to that feature.
Historical data and testing.
cTrader grants access to historical data of dozens of symbols. EAs can be tested on accurate historical data with a wide range of timeframes.
The platform offers multiple options to test and visualize a cBot’s performance including on custom data.
Optimization.
An improved optimization feature allows traders to find an optimal set of variables to configure a cBot. The optimization runs several back tests and compares their effectiveness.
cTrader Copy.
cTrader Copy is a flexible investment platform that unites investors and trading signal providers. It has come to replace the outdated cMirror.
cTrader Copy has been updated with new risk management tools. A separate investment account is now automatically created for each copied strategy. This allows you to more accurately assess the effectiveness of each strategy separately and manage risks better.
Every user of cTrader platform can become a trading signals provider and receive remuneration for them. It is a convenient tool for investors and beginner traders to access successful trading strategies of traders from all over the world.
Launch сTrader Copy.
The network of developers.
The network of cTrader developers is a specialized community of traders and developers where you can discuss share and develop collectively trading robots and indicators.
The services provided by the community allow you to upload and download robots and indicators, to blog and to comment on robots and indicators created by other users.
Also, here you can find the full documentation on API and the “Help” section on cTrader.
cTrader Automate API.
The code of the trading robots and indicators can be written with the usage of Visual Studio or the code editor.
The code editor has been designed for comfortable coding with search fields that can help you find the right parts of the code, and an auto-fill option for fast and intuitive coding.
Autotrading Plug and Play.
The ‘Plug and Play’ functions allows one to upload an EA or an indicator (or to download it from other network’s members) and press ‘Play’ to immediately start trading avoiding complicated installing procedures.
You can run cBots in seconds thanks to that feature.
Historical data and testing.
cTrader grants access to historical data of dozens of symbols. EAs can be tested on accurate historical data with a wide range of timeframes.
The platform offers multiple options to test and visualize a cBot’s performance including on custom data.
An improved optimization feature allows traders to find an optimal set of variables to configure a cBot. The optimization runs several back tests and compares their effectiveness.
FIX API cTrader.
FIX API cTrader was developed to allow retail traders to trade via FIX-messages using their cTrader accounts.
FIX API is a FIX protocol interface used by the majority of brokers and trading platforms. It allows its users to obtain the spot-prices and market depth data, place any types of orders and manage running trades, but avoiding the use of the software. Direct access to the platform allows trading EA’s to react to quotes updates faster as compared to the trading software.
FIX API account details are generated when a cTrader NDD account is created. The service fee is included into the plan. Traders can both use the desktop and the web versions of the cTrader platform to access their accounts.
Execution speed.
Orders get executed with minimum delay with fist execution speed.
Free FIX API.
cTrader FIX API is available for all traders free of charge.
Create apps.
Traders can create trading apps relying on fast data processing speed and upload them to the server using FIX API.