Australian brokerage Pepperstone has just announced that it is diversifying its platform, offering away from the Sirix webtrader solution from Leverate which it launched only about a year ago. The company will be using a new cloud-based WebTrader for MT4 delivered from Fortex.

This marks the second rather big broker shunning away Leverate’s Sirix in a rather short span of time – markets.com became the first one last year after launching its own webtrader platform solution. That said, up until now both offerings are still available to clients of the brokerage.

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The new platform offering is available only to live clients of Pepperstone. The new WebTrader allows the broker’s clients to get market depth data in real-time, single-click orders and a completely revamped user interface, designed with the trader in mind.

Fortex has been on the platform market for a while but only recently released its 6th generation of the trading platform under the same brand. The cloud-based interface is accessible for traders on both the desktop and mobile, featuring an adaptive user interface.

The new platform solution which Pepperstone offers also includes AlgoX, which is the algo trading add-on allowing traders to devise their own automated trading strategies. The extension uses open programming languages, like JavaScript and C# in order to allow flexibility for developers when coding their algos into the paltform. The solution is also compatible with MT4 Expert Advisors.