Forex Capital Markets

Project Role:Front-end eveloper

A leader in the currency trading market place, FXCM is a global power house providing spread bet and Forex CFD trading services. They have the tools to help you succeed at all levels, from the newbie to the 24/7 pro trader – FXCM empowers traders around the world.

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Introducing a new way to trade

Most people are familiar with trading stocks and mutual funds – but many don’t even think about the currency market. FXCM gives the tools and support to ensure the end-user can profit off of their trading prowess.

Custom CSS shapes

Highlighting the important information

Static images to contain flexible text rarely works these days. In order to ensure any amount of text would format correctly custom triangle shapes were attached to the :before and :after pseudo classes to give the illusion of word balloons.

Landing page builder

Enabling the marketing machine

Using WordPress, a highly customized theme was created with Visual Composer and WPML to allow the FXCM marketing team to build customized pages and utilize advanced widgets

Organized file structure

Making a developer's life easier

The FXCM code base is extremely organized with all script and style files attached to dependencies much like WebPack. This allows the support of legacy sites as well as new to live in the same environment free of conflicts and easy to append.

Globalized endeavors

Truly a global company, FXCM needs to adhere to laws and languages of all major area of the globe. With this in mind, creating content and custom modules becomes more advanced than they would have otherwise.

Multiple languages

English, French, Spanish, and Japanese to name a few FXCM's websites must be translated for each users preferred language.

Market scanner

A holdover from buying out another company; this widget had to be rebuilt from the ground up to meet the multi-language needs of FXCM.

Landing page widgets

A huge amount of customization went into the FXCM Landing Page Builder such as: templates by language, JSON to HTML table, and more.

Multi-language, unified development

While FXCM is a global powerhouse of currency trading, behind the scenes is a great team of developers building everything form sites supporting major global languages, to automating news article blogs, and creating custom widgets to help traders preform at their best.