A trading engine that only trusts its own prices
Each trader account runs on its own engine. It fills orders only at the platform's own server prices, keeps the money maths exact, and records every step before it tells anyone the result.
- Orders
Market, limit and stop orders. Stop-loss and take-profit on any position. Close a whole position or part of it.
A pending order whose level has already passed when it arrives is refused, so it can't fill at a price the trader never asked for.
- Hedged positions
A buy and a sell on the same pair stay as separate positions. Nothing is netted.
- Margin and leverage
Leverage and margin are set per account group. Pending orders are checked for margin when they are placed. Stop-out closes the largest losing position first, then the next, until the margin level is back above the line.
- Costs
Commission per lot, and overnight swaps at each pair's rollover with a triple-swap day. Both count in equity and in the daily loss.
- Seven FX majors
EUR/USD, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, NZD/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CHF and USD/CAD. Trading follows FX market hours, Sunday 17:00 to Friday 17:00 New York time.
- Exact money
Prices and money are exact decimals, never binary floating point. Money is rounded to the cent when it is posted.
Fills come from the server, never the browser
Every fill uses the latest usable price the platform itself received. A price shown in a browser is never used to fill anything.
Every fill records the ID of the quote it used, so any trade can be traced back to the exact price behind it.
When each order fills
The same table drives every account. Our tests run through every row of it.
| Order | Triggers when | Fills at |
|---|---|---|
| Market buy or sell | It is processed | The latest usable ask (buy) or bid (sell) |
| Buy limit | Ask is at or below the limit | That ask: the limit or better |
| Sell limit | Bid is at or above the limit | That bid: the limit or better |
| Buy stop | Ask is at or above the trigger | That ask, which can be worse after a gap |
| Sell stop | Bid is at or below the trigger | That bid, which can be worse after a gap |
| Stop-loss or take-profit on a buy | Bid reaches the level | That bid |
| Stop-loss or take-profit on a sell | Ask reaches the level | That ask |
A retry never trades twice
Networks drop. Traders press buttons twice. The engine is built for both.
- One ID per order
Every order and close carries its own ID. Send the same one again, after a timeout or even across a server restart, and you get the original result back. It never trades a second time.
- Recorded before it is confirmed
An accepted request is written to the journal before the trader is told it was accepted.
- One engine per account
Each account has its own worker that takes events strictly in order. Sequence numbers, not clocks, decide what happened first.