In 1999, Dennis Globa and his friends became interested in forex trading. At that time, algorithmic trading was something new, and only a few trading platforms existed, each with limited capabilities. GlobaAos primary concern was to combine third-party historical data with real-time data. Unfortunately, the competing technical analysis platforms tried to be originalAiattempting to gain market share by compelling consumers to accept one platform as the preferred standard. Regrettably, this prevented users from accomplishing many seemingly simple tasks. Instead, users had to search for workarounds. From this chaos, the idea was born to create utilities to improve the capabilities of existing trading platforms.