Software Alternatives & Startups

ShellNewHandler VS WxTrade

Compare ShellNewHandler VS WxTrade and see what are their differences

ShellNewHandler

SourceForge.net: ShellNewHandler details page

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WxTrade

WxTrade provides advanced CRM and Multi-Trading Platform Support for CFD Forex Brokers.

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Which is more popular?

Based on our record, ShellNewHandler seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 2 times since March 2021.

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Base details

Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.

ShellNewHandler
WxTrade
Website sourceforge.net wxtrade.com
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Company — Startup from Lithuania · 100 - 249 employees · 2025
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About ShellNewHandler and WxTrade

In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.

ShellNewHandler
WxTrade

No description of ShellNewHandler yet.

WxTrade is a brokerage infrastructure platform for Forex brokers. It replaces the usual stack of disconnected vendors with one system covering trading platform access, CRM, client portal, risk management and compliance. At its centre is WconneX, WxTrade's CRM and back office. WconneX handles...

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Analysis

An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.

ShellNewHandler
WxTrade

Overall verdict

  • ShellNewHandler is a niche, lightweight utility hosted on SourceForge designed to give users more control over the Windows 'New' context menu (the ShellNew menu). It can be considered good for its specific narrow use case, but it is an older, minimally maintained tool that may not suit all users, especially those on modern Windows versions.

Why this product is good

  • Provides direct control over customizing the Windows right-click 'New' menu, allowing users to add or remove file type entries
  • Lightweight and free, without bundled bloatware typical of some other free utilities
  • Simple and focused in scope, making it easy to understand for its specific purpose
  • Open distribution via SourceForge allows transparency and no-cost access

Recommended for

  • Power users who want to declutter or customize the Windows New context menu
  • IT administrators managing standardized desktop environments across multiple machines
  • Users comfortable with older utility-style tools and Windows registry-related tweaks
  • Not recommended for casual users seeking modern, actively supported software with regular updates

No analysis of WxTrade yet.

Category popularity

How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.

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Questions & Answers

As answered by people managing ShellNewHandler and WxTrade.

What makes your product unique?

WxTrade's answer:

WxTrade runs the whole brokerage on one data model. Most brokers buy the trading platform, the CRM, the client portal, risk and compliance reporting from separate vendors, then pay to integrate them — and the records still do not line up. In WxTrade a client record, a trading account and a compliance flag refer to the same entity everywhere, so the onboarding team, the dealing desk and the compliance officer are reading the same numbers rather than reconciling four systems.

Two consequences follow. MT5 and cTrader run concurrently and are monitored from a single dashboard instead of one console per platform. And launch is a configuration job, not a development project — a SaaS platform builder and an OpenAPI marketplace mean brokers assemble and brand their own environment, reaching live in weeks rather than months.

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

WxTrade's answer:

Three reasons, in the order brokers usually weigh them.

Fewer vendors to hold accountable. When onboarding breaks, a broker running five vendors spends the first day establishing whose fault it is. On one platform there is one place to look and one party responsible.

Time to live. Because the environment is configured rather than built, brokers reach launch in weeks. For a firm holding a licence but no revenue, each month saved is a month of regulatory overhead not paid against zero income.

Permissions that match how a brokerage actually works. Sales, operations, finance, risk and compliance all work in the same records, and each sees only what its role permits. Granular user and role management is the difference between one system the whole firm can use and one that compliance refuses to sign off.

WxTrade runs on infrastructure rated at 99.99% uptime, with KYC and AML/GDPR handled in the platform rather than bolted on.

How would you describe the primary audience of your product?

WxTrade's answer:

Retail forex and CFD brokerages — firms launching a first regulated brokerage without existing technical infrastructure, and established brokers consolidating an inherited stack of separate vendors.

The buying decision sits with brokerage COOs, CTOs and heads of operations, with sign-off from compliance officers and heads of trading. Day-to-day users are client onboarding and operations teams, sales and retention desks, finance and payments staff, risk and dealing teams, and compliance officers producing regulatory reports.

What's the story behind your product?

WxTrade's answer:

WxTrade was built from an observation about how brokerages are actually assembled. A firm launching a brokerage does not buy one product — it buys a trading platform from one vendor, a CRM from another, a client portal from a third, then pays an integrator to make them talk to each other. Every one of those seams is a place where a client record can disagree with itself, and every one is a reason a launch slips from weeks into quarters.

WxTrade's answer was to build the brokerage as a single system with one identity and data model, and to make the parts a broker needs to change — branding, symbol configuration, permissions, integrations — configurable rather than commissioned. WconneX, the CRM and back office, sits at the centre of that.

The company operates from Vilnius, Lithuania, with a second office in Thailand.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.

ShellNewHandler 2 mentions
WxTrade 0 mentions
  • I recently got libreoffice, but now the new option in right click looks like a mess. Can someone help me get rid of them please?
    Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
  • This menu should be easy to add/remove programs to... Who is really creating Access Databases from this menu often enough to keep it here? (Not me!) Is there an easy way to edit this?
    I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago

Tracking WxTrade since Aug 2026.