History
1996 saw the first generation of forex online trading platforms based on the internet. These allowed both the foreign exchange and customer markets to flourish. The web-technology allowed retail foreign exchange trading to foster easy and fast ways for customers to access the markets and the currency pairs while making trades from their own computers.
The software development of trading platforms have seen a number of stages, initially trading platforms were based on basic programs downloaded to the computer. This was followed by the development easier to use interfaces and advanced features such as charting and technical analysis tools. The next stage saw the move to web based platforms and to mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones. There has also been a focus on developments to integrate automated trading tools and social trading into the forex trading platforms.
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