Built by a trader who got tired of eleven open tabs.
FX Patrol is a market terminal for discretionary FX traders who think in fundamentals first and use technicals for entry timing. It gathers the things you check before you touch a chart — prices and cross-asset quotes, the economic calendar, the news wire, central-bank rate paths, macro indicators and yields, geopolitics — puts them on one screen, and labels every panel with its source and the time it was last refreshed.
The problem this exists to solve
If you trade FX off fundamentals, the raw material is all free and all scattered. The calendar is on one site, the wire on another, rate pricing on a third, CFTC positioning on a fourth, yields on a fifth. By the time you've opened them all, checked the timestamps and worked out which ones went stale overnight, the session has started without you.
I wanted one screen that held all of it, with the provenance attached, so that "what do I actually know this morning?" takes two minutes instead of twenty. I couldn't find it at a price a retail trader would pay. So I built it.
What's actually in it
- Prices and quotes — every tracked FX pair, metal, energy contract and global yield, with the day's change and a seven-day sparkline, plus a cross-asset ticker (SPX, NDX, VIX, US 10-year, bitcoin, gold, WTI). Charts on the pair pages come from OANDA.
- The economic calendar — actual, forecast and previous on every release, grouped by day, filterable by currency and impact, with the surprise measured where the series' orientation is known.
- A multi-desk news wire — newswires, FX desks, official central-bank releases and macro writers, filtered down to FX, macro and geopolitics. Headline, source, a short excerpt and a link out. Nothing is republished in full.
- Central banks and rate paths — current rate, the meeting calendar and the implied path reconstructed from rates futures, so the path is the market's, not anyone's opinion.
- Macro indicators, yields and geopolitics — a curated set of the trade-relevant G7 series from official sources, a yields board, and a map console with conflicts, chokepoints, energy routes and live layers.
- Your own journal — trades entered by hand or imported from a read-only OANDA token, with reports and your own numbers.
What I care about
- Honesty over hype. Every panel says where the number came from and when it was fetched, and goes visibly stale rather than quietly wrong. Where data is missing you get "not available", never a plausible-looking placeholder.
- Data, not opinions. The product shows you what the market, the calendar and the official sources say. It does not forecast which way anything is going — that read is the part you are paid for. Where a panel does lean one way, it is arithmetic on market pricing and it shows the numbers behind it.
- Discretionary, not algorithmic. This is a thinking aid for traders who already trade. It does not enter, exit, or size positions for you, and it has no execution layer at all.
- Correct beats clever. Percent changes are computed from a stored previous close, not guessed. Beat/miss is only coloured where we know which direction is the good one for that series. Times are labelled with their timezone.
What it deliberately is NOT
- Not an entry signal. There are no buy or sell calls, no targets and no stops anywhere in the product.
- Not a forecast. Nothing here predicts a price or a direction, so there is no track record to quote at you either.
- Not personalised advice. It knows nothing about your account size, risk tolerance, or open positions. You are responsible for what you do with the information.
- Not exhaustive. It can only show what its sources publish. Private flow, broker positioning, sell-side notes and intervention plans are all invisible to it.
Read the full risk disclaimer before you act on anything you see in the app.