The OANDA FXTrade platform includes a form of options trading called FXBoxOption. This feature lets OANDA clients trade options through a simple, well-understood graphical user interface. Now the everyday trader can buy and sell a complex structured options product that used to be available only to the sophisticated institutional investor.

The OANDA FXBoxOption feature empowers traders to define their own options in real-time:

• Option strategies enable the trader to cap the risk (unlike margin-based trading, where the trader has to take potentially unlimited risk to participate on the upside). The ability to carefully control risk makes intra-day options trading attractive to short-term traders.
• FXBoxOptions can be used to trade intra-day options with time horizons as short as 5 minutes (Unlike traditional options, which are typically only available for time horizons of one or more days).