Hello Android!

We are happy to announce that our Android app is finally available on Google Play.

There are a few advantages over our web version:

• Selected and heavily tested software builds guarantee a stable trading experience.
• Better performance.
• No annoying URL bar at the top.
• A native interface for logging in and account creation.

We hope that you enjoy our new app and look forward to your feedback.

PS: We also plan to release an iOS version in the near future.

With today's update we added an automatic future rollover system. All FUTURE CFD orders and positions will be automatically "rolled over" to the next contract on our rollover dates. This means that the entry, limit, stop entry, stop loss and take profit prices are adjusted for the price difference on that day.

We also deployed a lot of other smaller improvements and changes. Here is the full changelog:

• Completely redesigned trading idea page.
• It is now possible to edit copy trader settings without having to stop and start copying again.
• Added automatic rollover for future markets like OILWTI.
• Introduced the new contract types “STOCK” and “FUTURE”.
• Fixed issues when entering an empty search query.
• Comments on trades are now sorted in ascending order. (Oldest comment at the top)
• Added dialog for stock markets where dividend dates are shown.
• Added dialog for future markets where rollover dates are shown.
• Added an error message when trying to copy a trader that you’re already copying.
• A popup now warns if local (cached) files have a different version than our back-end API which lead to broken components in the past. It also offers a “Update files now” functionality.
• Fixed a bug where open public trades were labelled as closed.
• Fixed a bug where uncopied closed trades were shown to be a copy of themselves.
• Allow to set a copy limit of one trade per day. Former minimum was five trades per day.
• Fixed a bug where order creation was blocked because of using a decimal number in the profit/loss calculator.
• Removed copy_of flag from orders since positions can no longer be manually copied (API)
• Capitalized all letters for market/categories return (API)
• Added STOCK and FUTURE as market types (API)

Update February 26th: A new era begins

Over the past year we have constantly added new features to make our trading platform a more social place, where people can share and discuss their trades. We have collected a lot of information and received extremely helpful feedback from the community. With today’s update we made some drastic improvements to our platform:


Automatically copy traders

It is no longer possible to copy individual trading ideas. Instead we switched to a user-based system, where traders can be automatically copied with a fixed amount. We are extremely excited about this change since it allows successful users to build a stable followership easier than ever before. With the help of our traditional reward system, your knowledge can be monetized extremely efficiently.


A beautiful new profile page

Obviously the profile page is one of the most important things for a social trading platform. With this in mind, we put a lot of love and time into a complete redesign. It now gives an insight of the trader’s monthly performance, followership and trading style with the help of beautiful charts. A custom profile picture and an “about me” text makes it possible to present yourself to your potential copiers.


Notification System

Our new notification system will always keep you up-to-date. Important events like when someone copies you or a deposit gets credited to your account it will be prominently displayed.


BTC/USD and the allocated funds

One of the more frustrating things on our platform is the “All allocated funds are used ...” error message when trying the enter the BTC/USD market; we know! Especially in times of high volatility it is important to know if you can enter the market beforehand. While we cannot fix the root issue (see our previous blog post), we added basic information to the market details page. It shows the percentage of our allocated funds in use.


We also made dozens of minor improvements and fixes with this update. Here is a list of the most noticeable ones:

• Improved and minimized UI on the support page.
• It’s now easier to navigate to the own profile page.
• Hovering a Bitcoin amount with the mouse will now show the full precision amount.
• Enabled CDN caching for all static pages. This reduces the page loading times by up to 90%.
• Improved visuals when a comment is deleted.
• Fixed a bug where nothing is displayed when the own comment is deleted from your trading idea.
• Moved from HTTP 302 to HTTP 301 redirects to activate browser-level caching.
• Completely redesigned the landing page of the trading panel.
• Improved the size of some buttons on mobile devices.
• Increased maximum AFK detection time from 15 to 30 minutes.
• Fixed bug where exchange rate toggle button is not displayed on mobile devices.
• Fixed issue with spinner buttons in currency input fields on Firefox.
• Renamed “Open Price” to “Entry Price” across the interface for consistency reasons.
• The “current price” in the HTML title is now properly formatted as a fixed decimal string.
• Use Math.floor instead of round in UI for currency amounts to avoid mysterious “insufficient funds” error.
• Multiple performance improvements and cleanup of unused code.

PS: Today Cloudflare announced that they were affected by a serious memory leak bug where sensitive information was leaked in some cases. We carefully analyzed the technical details of this issue and can announce that 1Broker was not affected. Nevertheless, this is a good reminder to use secure and unique passwords and to enable two-factor authentication whenever possible.

For past updates, please refer to our blog.

Happy trading!

More updates to the API and charting tools are in development. 

BTC/USD - A special market

If you are trading on our BTC/USD market you may have received this error message from time to time: “All of our allocated funds are currently used to hedge existing positions on this market. Please try again later!” We are aware that there is ongoing speculation and frustration in the community, and we hope that this blog entry gives some insight into why this error appears and what our future plans are.

Hedging BTC/USD positions

• You may have noticed that our BTC/USD market is quite “special”. It has a low maximum leverage, a tiny account-maximum of 20 BTC, a high overnight-financing rate and even a different profit/loss formula. There are multiple reasons for this:
• Compared to our other markets the Bitcoin price is quite volatile and the usual economic theories of inflation and efficient-market hypothesis cannot be applied one-to-one.
• Our traders are exceptionally optimistic about the Bitcoin price. While the ratio between long and short positions usually approximates 1:1 (906:1000 for the EUR/USD market with ~206k positions) the ratio for BTC/USD positions is stable at 1000:770. This means that there is a constant imbalance of too many long positions which cannot be matched against short positions. This means that hedging those positions efficiently is extremely important.
• Hedging long positions (even unleveraged ones) works by converting the USD value of the position size to Bitcoin. We can either allocate some of our own Bitcoin reserves and counter long positions (Problem: our reserves are limited) or we “borrow” USD and actually convert them on spot exchanges. (Problems: counterparty risks, interest charges, trading fees)
• To stay competitive we have to offer an extremely low spread and financing charges which leads to a small overall loss of around 0.1% of the trading volume for us.

The future

With our update on January 13th, we added multiple statistical tools to our backend, which will be used to closely track the activity on this market and to help us finding the right parameters. Depending on the market conditions we will adapt the spread and overnight charges more aggressively and move our revenue from -0.10% to 0.05% of the trading volume. However, we plan to use all of these profits to increase our reserves and to meet the growing demand. While higher fees might be unpleasant, it’s a necessary step to make the BTC/USD market future-proof. Once we are satisfied with the situation we will add more crypto pairs to our platform in the coming months.

Original post: https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog

Hey, thanks for your submission, we will look into this..

Check out our post below for more information on the BTC / USD market and our plans for it in the future.

Thanks!

Our first update of 2017 includes a lot of new features and improvements. We added an in-page support system and finally optimized the referral system - including a calculation tool and statistics to improve your referral experience!

Here is the complete changelog:

• Added an in-page support system.
• Fixed “reset” bug when inserting decimal numbers into input fields.
• Increased referral reward from 15% to 25%. (Until June 30th 2017)
• Increased “copy-trade” reward from 15% to 25%. (Until June 30th 2017)
• Shortened referral link.
• Added a calculation tool for estimating the rewards on the referral page.
• Added monthly, 6-month and yearly referral statistics.
• Added line charts for link clicks, the amount you earned and the accounts created under your referral link. This gives you a detailed insight of your performance.
• Changed input styling on iOS devices using Safari.
• Added limit parameter to bars.php which lets you limit your data to a certain amount of values.
• Added API Call Quota System.
• Added Heikin Ashi chart type.
• Added current price to browser title when navigating to market details.
• Swapped Bid/Ask label positions in the live chart.
• Newsletters received a completely new unsubscribe system.

https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog

We are currently investigating an issue which is causing some users not to be able to connect.

Update: Outage stems from an issue on cloud flare's end.

Update: Issue is resolved.

There are limitations on the amount of total used margin on this market. This limitation is unique to the BTC / USD market, as it's still in an experimental state. All other markets are unaffected.

1Broker does not have MT4 support, but out platform is very mobile friendly.

You can follow market price using our build in charts, or the charts from FXCM on www.tradingview.com

Have you noticed that we added a new in-page profit/loss calculator last week?
Check out a demo here

Hey, if you think there is a bug, or an order execution issue, please send us an e-mail: patrick@1Broker.com 
Be sure to include the position ID and a short description of your issue and we will look into it.
Please note that responses may be delayed over the weekend.

We currently have no plans for MT4 integration.

We review all feature requests we receive from users, and more improvements to the social features are coming in the new year.

With today's update we finally introduced Trailing Stop Loss orders as an additional trading option. Have a look at our Trailing Stop Loss page to see a beautiful simulation of this new order type.


Here is the complete change-log:

• Improved blog paging system and HTML title.
• Several improvements for the live chart.
• Added additional historical chart data that goes back for 10 years.
• Trailing Stop Loss.
• Trailing Stop Loss explanation page.
• We’re storing and showing who deleted a comment from now on.
• Shortened overnight charge transaction description to fit the PDF paper size.
• Added indicators (line and circles) to show the current mouse x position in line charts.
• Dozens of minor UI fixes and improvements.

We currently offer yearly, weekly, daily, hourly, and a live chart. The live chart is updated every few seconds.
More charting options are in the pipeline, and updates will continue to roll out throughout the new year.

Great suggestion! We are continually improving the social features based on user interaction and feedback. More feautres and improvements are slated for release throughout the new year.

Latest update: https://1broker.com/?c=en/content/blog&id=48

What features would you be interested in seeing integrated?