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OANDA FXLabs is a place for you to come and discover what OANDA has been working on recently. New tools you can take for a test drive. New tools we are considering. And beta releases of new products.

Take a look. Tell us what you think, and help us improve. Your comments count, which is why each tool has its own forum. And come back frequently: new tools and improvements will be added regularly.

С помощью технических инструментов, разработанных OANDA, можно с большей прозрачностью понять тенденцию и общую картину рынка.

Ссылка: http://fxtrade.oanda.com/lang/ru/analysis/

Для примера можно привести следующие разработки:


The Effects of Economic News on Forex
FXNewsEffects: See news events plotted on currency graphs
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fxEconoStats
See the big picture.

View the latest economic figures graphed against historical economic data for major economic regions. Figures are compiled from data from central banks, national statistics offices, and other official sources.

Zoom in on a particular time period, or zoom out to see movement over the past decade. View animations of weekly changes to yield curves. Save particular graphs, or email them to colleagues.

- FXNewsEffects depicts the timing of economic-related announcements relative to changes in exchange rates. Announcement times, shown as green dots, are superimposed on the rates curve. Clicking on a green dot causes details of the announcement to be displayed in the table below the graph. The rates shown in the graph were OANDA fxTrade dealable rates at the time.

Economic announcements occur when government agencies and central banks release macro-economic information. Such announcements have always been a major factor behind forex market movements. The impact of announcements on market prices differs depending on the type of announcement and the degree to which the specifics of the announcement were anticipated. Some announcements have a strong and immediate impact with sharp increases or decreases in rates. Other announcements affect the market gradually over a longer period of time. Still other announcements can affect the market before the announcement either because of leaks or because their content is anticipated based on other publicly available data.

FXNewsEffects helps traders learn from past impacts of economic announcements and therefore can help increase their forecasting skills and trading time precision.

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Historical Open Orders
See how OANDA's client orders have evolved over time

Historical Order Book expands the Open Orders graph to show how fxTrade's order book changes over time. This unique tool helps forex traders to visualize number of placed orders during the selected priod and see how they evolve with market movements. These graphs encapsulate a huge amount of data (hundreds of thousands of orders) and therefore may be used as indicators of pressure and expectation, and support/resistance levels of forex market over time.

Each graph uses a color palette to depict percentage* of orders** placed at different price levels around the market price (the black line). There are four graphs for each selected currency pair and time period:

* Buy Orders: shows distribution of buy orders held by OANDA clients during the period
* Sell Orders: shows distribution of sell orders held by OANDA clients during the period
* Net (Buy-Sell) Orders: shows the net distribution of buy and sell orders
* Net (Buy-Sell) Cumulative Orders: same as the net orders but adds percentages together (cumulatively) as you move away from market price

Depending on the level of darkness of an area and its location being above or below market price, various explanations of market status can be made. For example, in the Buy Orders graph, a dark green area below market price may be regarded as a support line because if the market price goes down, a significant number of buy orders placed below market will be triggered. Similarly in the Sell Orders graph, a dark red area above market price indicates a resistance line which triggers a lot of sell orders if market reaches to that level.

The Net Orders graph shows OANDA's net order book for the selected pair and time period. This graph is generated by subtracting amount of sell orders from buy orders in all corresponding price levels. Here, both green and red color palettes are used to show areas which contain more buy orders than sell orders and vice versa. This is also shown by the sign of the percentage value i.e. a negative percentage means there are more sells and than buys.