Frequently asked questions.

No. What you get is market data and public sources, laid out on one screen with the time each one was fetched. There are no recommendations, no personalised advice and no solicitation to trade. You're responsible for your own decisions. If you want personalised advice, talk to a regulated financial adviser.

No — and it does not try to. There is no forecast, no conviction score and no entry or exit anywhere in the product. It shows you what the market, the calendar and the official sources say, and leaves the read to you. Where a panel does lean one way — a rate-path differential that favours one leg, say — it is arithmetic on live market pricing, and it prints the numbers it read. That also means there is no performance record for us to quote at you, because there is nothing being scored.

It did, and that has been retired. The AI engine that wrote a directional view on each pair, along with its conviction scores, thesis pillars and track-record pages, has been switched off and removed from the product. What remains is the part that was always just data: prices, the calendar, the wire, rate paths, indicators, geopolitics and your journal. Nothing that remains is model-generated.

Named sources, on purpose — the provenance is the point. FX and cross-asset prices come from market data feeds, with the pair charts from OANDA. The calendar comes from a public economic-calendar feed. The wire pulls from newswires, FX desks, official central-bank pages (Fed, ECB, BoE, BoJ, BIS) and macro writers. Rate paths are reconstructed from rates futures — the Fed Funds path off the ZQ curve. Positioning is the CFTC's weekly Commitments of Traders. Macro series come from FRED and the national statistics offices. Every panel carries the source and the fetch time on the face of it.

If you're a discretionary trader who forms your own fundamental view and wants the inputs in one place — yes. If you're a scalper, intraday algo trader, or pure technicals-only trader — probably not, because it gives you no entries, no exits and no short-timeframe triggers. It's a research screen, not a trade engine.

No, and deliberately so. This is an information tool, not a financial service. The FCA regulates entities that provide regulated activities (executing trades, holding client money, giving personal recommendations) — none of which this does. The tool tells you what the news set says about each pair; you decide what to do with that information. Treating it as anything more than information is your call.

It depends on the feed, and the app tells you which is which. The news wire polls every couple of minutes. Calendar actuals are picked up within minutes of a release, with the full calendar re-pulled hourly. Prices, cross-asset quotes and rates pricing refresh on a 15-minute cycle — this is not a tick feed and is not sold as one. CFTC positioning is weekly, and the macro indicator series update daily against their official release schedules. Every panel shows its own "as of" time and goes visibly stale past its threshold rather than pretending to be current.

The G10 FX majors and crosses, gold and silver, platinum and palladium, WTI and Brent crude, the dollar index, and a yields & bonds section — 48 in all. Every one of them appears on the market board with the same price, change and sparkline treatment; the FX pairs also get their own detail page with a chart, positioning and rate path.

No. The research side needs nothing linked. The optional Trade Journal can import closed trades from an OANDA read-only API token if you choose to add one — it is stored encrypted, can never place or modify orders, and is deleted when you remove it. FX Patrol has no execution layer: you take the directional read and act on it in your own platform.

We store only what's needed to run your account — your email, your layout preferences, and your trade journal entries if you use that feature. No trading data leaves your control, nothing is sold to third parties, and there's no behavioural ad tracking. See the privacy policy for the detail.