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M4 Trading Platform - Open Source
Introducing M4 - a flexible trading platform with complete C# source code: for professional traders and brokerages in need of a customizable solution. M4 is the right solution no matter if you want to develop a stand-alone trading system, start a forex brokerage, start a stock or futures brokerage or replace a legacy trading platform.

Save thousands of hours in development time!
 

 Demo Video of M4 Platform
 M4 Trading Platform Q3 2010 Update Video


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The M4 platform is a professional trading application featuring real-time quote screens, charting, portfolio tracking, automated trading capabilities via the TradeScript scripting language, Windows Mobile charting plus much more...
M4 Trading Application
Are you considering a ready to go, custom-built trading platform?
Have you spent a lot of money building your own trading application only to find that it still does not serve your needs as expected? Are you paying for a platform that you do not own? Are you fretful that you cannot solve critical software problems because you do not have the source code?

The M4 platform is a white-label product that comes with full source code.
This means that you can purchase the application source code by paying a one-time license fee, then distribute the application to your trading clients (if you are a brokerage) or to other traders!

What you should know before you buy, lease, or build a platform...

            1. Buying a ready to go, custom-built trading platform is very expensive.
            2. Building a trading platform from scratch can be very demanding and frustrating.
            3. Leasing a trading platform and paying royalties is never sensible!
            4. Not having your trading platform source code is extremely limiting and dangerous.

If you're a brokerage, perhaps you are paying for a platform that you don’t even own, or you’re concerned that your competitors are releasing so many platforms that you can’t keep up with them. 

If you're a professional trader, perhaps you are frustrated with the lack of flexibility and support with your existing off-the-shelf trading software. The limited programming features that it offers are inadequate.

Or perhaps you have spent a ton of cash to build your own platform that is just not living up to your expectations, yet is costing an arm and a leg to maintain?


M4 IS SIMPLE,  FLEXIBLE AND AFFORDABLE!

SIMPLE
We now offer three versions of M4. The front-end user interface is available in Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C# and VC++. We feel that the VC++ version offers a familiar setting for experienced VC++ programmers, while the VB.NET and C# versions makes user interface customizations very simple and cost effective. In all versions, the CPU intensive back-end code is written in VC++ for better performance. Back-end code includes the quote display, charting features, technical analysis and the scripting language. View the process diagram.

FLEXIBLE
Everything about M4 is completely customizable. All windows, menus, toolbars, charts, and features can be modified, enhanced or removed with ease. Because you get complete source code for both the front end (VB.NET, C# or VC++ for the User Interface) and the backend (VC++ for StockChartX, TA-SDK, etc.), you can make modifications yourself or you can hire developers to make modifications for you. If you do not have access to developers, we can supply developers at a very competitive rate.

AFFORDABLE
M4 can be configured based on your unique needs and budget. We offer an affordable perpetual license with source code priced at just a fraction of the $100,000 fee that other platform companies charge without source code!

Click here to schedule a web presentation. We can discuss your needs and show you the M4 application with source code plus other solutions that may fit your needs.
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LOWEST COST PLATFORM - MOST FEATURES
With M4 the time to market is faster and the total costs are far less than even using open source libraries and paying for outsourced development! GUARANTEED.

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GUARANTEED COMPATIBILITY
The M4 platform can be customized to work with any brokerage API or data feed API. In fact, if your API is provided with documentation, we may program the interfaces free of charge!

M4 Trading Platform Source Code available in VB.net, C# and VC++

Trade directly off of charts

The client application is available in C#, VB.net and VC++, which includes:
1. Professional double buffered quote screen with live thumbnail tick charts
2. Portfolio manager / Order entry screen (can be linked to any brokerage)
3. Charting screen with technical analysis and direct trading from charts
4. Advanced chart pattern recognition built into the charting screen
5. Neural Network (Artificial Intelligence) feature is built into M4
6. Features user-editable Expert Advisors and Consensus Reports
7. Back testing screen (with end-user scripting language)
8 Real time alerts screen (with end-user scripting language)
9. Stock scanning screen (via the TradeScript language)
10. Import/Export to/from Excel including indicator values
11. Straight-forward data feed API adapter class with development support
12. Our mobile charting/portfolio viewer application based on StockChart CE
Also includes a back-end administrator application for generating license keys, sending instant messages, generating P&L reports plus much more...
M4 is extremely flexible! Any data provider or order entry API can be adapted!

 

 

 


With our new one-base framework, you can create high quality trading platforms that support many unique features in a matter of days or weeks… not months or years!

M4 features our StockChartX financial charting component, which seamlessly integrates into the advanced user interface, providing a very professional look and feel.

Save over 8,500 development man-hours: The M4 platform package includes our Source Code Subscription


M4 Features
  1. Powerful object-oriented charting and technical analysis
  2. Includes full source code that you may modify and extend
  3. Optional end-user technical support contract available
  4. All windows, toolbars, menus and charts are 100% customizable
  5. Orders can be transmitted to any API via a single function call
  6. C# Data Server included to distribute data to multiple M4 clients
  7. Optimized architecture takes advantage of multiple core processors
  8. Any data provider can be implemented into the application
  9. Scripting, alerts, back testing, pattern recognition and more
 10. Excellent product support and inexpensive consulting services

Asynchronous Processing
All CPU intensive processes in M4 are asynchronous, taking full advantage of the latest in multiple core processors. Data loading, neural network training, expert advisor processing and other features make full use of asynchronous programming throughout M4. We also make it easy for you to add your own asynchronous features by reusing our AsyncProcess template class.

Advanced User Interface Design

The M4 platform features our advanced financial charting component.

StockChartX is pre-integrated into the advanced user interface provided in the M4 platform.

Multiple charts can be displayed at once as shown in the image on the right. Charts can be tabbed, cascaded or floating.

M4 also features a skinned user interface with styles such as Windows Vista, Windows XP, Office XP, etc. Custom skins can be applied with ease.


       
Forex Pairs Screen

Forex Pair Screen

Advanced charting features Point & Figure, Renko, Kagi, Three Line Break, EquiVolume, Shaded EquiVolume, CandleVolume and the new Heikin Ashi Candlesticks including all popular technical indicators.

Multiple Charts


M4 Features Simple Deployment Options

 

VCPP, CSharp or VB.NET


Built-In TradeScript Scripting Language!

Scripting Language


           Built-In Scanner System


One of the most advanced features of M4 is the built-in TradeScript scripting language!

The TradeScript scripting language allows M4 end-users to write complex scripts with simulated control structure for scanning, real time alerts, back testing and more.

The scripting language is conceptually similar to MetaStock (tm) Scripting Language and TradeStation (tm) EasyLanguage (tm).

Powerful, Flexible Automated Trading
A trade-alert and automated trading screen is integrated into the M4 platform. All the hard, time-consuming work is already done.. all you have to do is wire up your data feed and order entry API. We can even do that for you! Alerts can be sent to any Windows Mobile 6.0 device.

 

TradeScript Scripting Formula Language

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The built-in scanner processes thousands of stock, futures, options and forex symbols
based on user-defined technical criteria (via TradeScript) in real-time.
 


M4 is a white-label product. This means you can change the application name, title, windows, menus and more. You may distribute the application to your end users if you purchase a commercial license.

 

M4 C# Edition features Expert Advisors

Traders can develop their own Expert Advisors or select from one of the many pre-defined Expert Advisors included within the trading system database.

Traders can choose to keep their Expert Advisors secret or publish the advisors so that other traders can use them.

This architecture provides the inherent extensibility to convert the publishing feature into a subscription model or app store with payment processing.



Custom Expert Advisor alert messages are formatted using HTML and variables such as:

<font color='red'>The SMA indicator recently crossed [above|below] the close, so [buy|sell] now!</font>

These Expert Advisor alerts will popup in the lower right corner of the screen whenever a signal is generated by M4.

 

 

Expert Advisor Consensus Reports

Canned Expert Advisors and User Defined Expert Advisors may be aggregated into one or more consensus reports that indicate the overall buy/sell consensus for the underlying chart data.

This multi-threaded feature allows traders to continue working with charts while the consensus reports are running.

Any number of Expert Advisors or Technical Indicators can be grouped into a consensus report.

The output is presented in a text box and the overall ranking of all outputs are calculated into a ranking value that ranges between -100 for sell and +100 for buy.

The ranking value is displayed in a gauge control next to the chart window.

Traders can refresh the consensus report periodically using the button on this screen.


Neural Network for Trading Software
 
Neural Network

M4 features an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that simulates basic parts of the biologic brain. You can train the neural network with one or more technical indicator inputs and then the system will attempt to forecast the market based on what it has learned from the historic data. M4's Neural Network uses our proprietary neural network training algorithm that has been specifically adapted for financial applications.

The Neural Network provides very interesting outputs, click here to see a sample.


Trade Twitter lets you Tweet Your Trades

 
Tweet Your Trades using Twitter!

M4 now allows traders to send tweets manually or automatically for each trade.

Click here to see a screenshot of the setup in a web 2.0 style.

As with everything else, all source code is included so you can tweak this feature as desired! By the way, you can follow us on twitter here.

Why buy M4? There are at least a few good reasons…

1. Most companies should prefer buying to building: if you build your own, there's an unacceptable risk that the end result might not work as expected. Most companies find it hard to admit this.

2. M4 can save you thousands of hours in development time. This means faster time to market and incredibly lower costs.

3. M4 is commercially supported. Your software developers will receive technical support, setup and training, source code updates and helpful advice for the entire duration of your source code subscription.


Quality Assurance
M4 has already been subjected to thousands of hours of QA testing, load testing and real-world usage by actual traders so that you can spend less time testing and debugging! We guarantee that the product will work as advertised!


Optional Interactive Brokers Integration
M4 can be customized to work with any brokerage API. An optional pre-programmed brokerage plug-in for Interactive Brokers can be included with your purchase of the M4 trading platform.

Interactive Brokers (IB) Brokerage API Support

 

Support
We provide highly available support for customizations and deployment to ensure that your platform is up and running in the shortest amount of time possible. Your platform can be up and running in as little as one week in many cases.


Requirements
The M4 platform requires a Windows 2000 or greater PC with Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework or greater. A third party user interface component is required, which must be licensed separately. The included setup application will install the framework if it is not already installed. If you need to modify the source code, your development team must make the modifications in VB.NET, C# and/or VC++, or you may request our consulting group to make modifications for you at a very reasonable hourly rate.


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Customization Services
Our team of highly skilled, professional financial software consultants can program any type of modification based on your individual needs at a very affordable rate. M4 can be customized to output custom technical indicators based on your formulas, buttons and menus can be added or removed, new windows can be inserted, new features can be added and so forth. Our developers are very experienced in VB.NET, C# and VC++ programming. If you are interested in our consulting services, please send an email to sales@modulusfe.com or call toll free, (888) 318-3754 and choose option 1.

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M4 Trading Platform Q3 2010 Update Video

 
Pricing, Terms, and Availability
M4 is affordably priced based on your intended usage. Unlimited distribution licenses are available for brokerages and retail software vendors. All packages include highly available technical support and source code updates for one full year (support and updates may be extended).
 


New! Introducing M4 Silverlight Edition
for browser-based trading platforms




New! Introducing M4 Institutional Edition
for Visual Studio development of strategies and real-time systems

 

 Limited Time Offer! Get eight hours of free setup and customization 
at no additional charge when you purchase the M4 platform!
Also receive our Enterprise Source Code Subscription!
Hurry - Offer Ends Soon!

To get a detailed quote for the M4 trading platform please email sales@modulusfe.com or call us toll free at (888) 318-3754 and select option 1.

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