Forex Kills

I told you that I have to improve the response time of Mataf.net… 3 hours of work and it’s done:

Response time of Mataf.net

2 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / Non classé

We just re-launched the forex brokers comparison tool. Flo built this tool last year but we had some technical problems which are now fixed.

As every webmasters I wanted to add a fx brokers comparison section on my website but I didn’t want to update the data manually.  I also didn’t want to use broker’s API. Our target was to reproduce exactly what I see on the trading platform. We found only one solution: OCR -Optical Character Recognition-

The process is quite simple but it’s not the easiest way. We have a dedicated computer with the trading platforms, we make a screen shot every ten seconds, we send the picture to our server and the OCR translates the picture to text.

We had technical problems on each step.

• Our office is not as big as fxstreet’s, I had to find a place to put the computer with 2 screens. Don’t laugh, it was a really problem.
• We search and find a wonderful software to make the screen shot: SnagIt.
• SnagIt can send the picture with FTP but we encountered several problems. If our server cuts the communication, SnagIt stops the process. I use “Cobian Backup” to send the files.
• Images are processed to remove unnecessary parts. The OCR system is developed in C. It took several months to be optimized.

And now I have a great tool to compare the price and the spread offered by forex brokers. To see how the price and the spread moves during the news. And finally I want to compare the bid/ask of each brokers to see if I can find an indicator for my personal trading.

If you are a broker and if you want to be included in this tool, I would be very pleased to have a real account (even without money)…

You can find similar tools on the Internet but never as detailled:

• Mataf – the best
• FXIntel – Not bad but useless for trading
• Oanda – a marketing tool… the spread during the news release is the most interesting

Forex brokers comparison

4 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / forex industry

Mataf's Uptime

The uptime was 100% until the last 3 days of the month, no luck, an unknown error has destroyed my hopes to be at 100%…

The uptime was 99.75% in january, the response time 1048ms.

I have to work to improve the numbers this year. It will be more and more important.

1 Comment » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

Google AdPlanner gives strange statistics

Last September I shared my Google Analytics statistics on AdPlanner. Since this time the number of visitors has increased from 35′000 to 200′000 unique visitors per day.

I wish it was true…

No Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

I have some statistics since 2005.

Statistics from 2005 to 2009

I started 2005 with 100′000 visits per month, after 1 year I had 200′000 visits, in 2007 300′000 visits, 2008 started with 430′000 visits and 2009 with 980′000 visits.
This year is better with 1′150′000 visits in january.

Bad years :

• In 2006 I worked at Synthesis Bank (now saxo Switzerland) as head of webmarketing, I didn’t work a lot on Mataf and the number of visitors decreased on Q3.
• In 2009 I had a lot of problems with my hosting, the volatility on the market decreased, and I took 1 month vacation at the end of the year for my honey moon…

Excellent year

• Q3 2008 was the fall of EURUSD, i think most of the forex websites had the same variation in the number of visitors.

2 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / statistics

Mataf.net an other forex site on the web

This is my first post here. I’m Arnaud Jeulin, the owner of Mataf.net. I live in France.

I don’t think I will publish more than one or two post per month. I won’t speak about trading here, only about forex industry and my technical and administrative work on Mataf.net.

2 Comments » Posted by Arnaud Jeulin / about