Getting started

August 10, 2026 · View on GitHub

Prerequisites

Windows
The .NET 10 SDK
Visual Studio with .NET desktop development tools
The VisualHFT OxyPlot fork cloned beside this repository

Clone the repositories

VisualHFT.csproj references the VisualHFT OxyPlot fork by a sibling path. Clone both repositories into the same parent directory.

git clone https://github.com/visualHFT/oxyplot.git
git clone https://github.com/visualHFT/VisualHFT.git

The resulting folders should look like this:

parent-folder/
├── oxyplot/
└── VisualHFT/

Build and run

Open VisualHFT/VisualHFT.sln in Visual Studio.
Build the solution.
Set VisualHFT as the startup project.
Press F5.
In the Dashboard, select an available provider and a normalised symbol such as BTC/USD.

Next steps

Review the architecture overview.
Build a market connector or study plugin.
Use troubleshooting if the application does not build or a provider does not stream data.