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Communicate With MT4 Using External Program

  • #1
  • First Post: Apr 1, 2010 11:00am Apr 1, 2010 11:00am
Okay, here is a good question. Is there any way (preferably easy) to communicate with the MT4 platform through an external program? Why? Because I have two separate accounts with the same broker and, if I could pass information externally (mainly order verification), then I'm allowed to hedge between separate accounts. Any ideas?

Thanks.
  • #2
  • Apr 1, 2010 11:41am Apr 1, 2010 11:41am
What about the Meta Trader 5 platform? Is this something you can do with that?
  • #3
  • Apr 1, 2010 12:24pm Apr 1, 2010 12:24pm
So, you can set an alarm to go off when certain conditions are met and, you can set a hot-key, which is external, to execute a trade (I believe) and thus communicate with the program. So, is there some sort of interface involved, via the hot-key, where you can send the same information to another open account?

I guess I would have to understand a bit about programming Windows, but I don't.
  • #4
  • Apr 1, 2010 2:48pm Apr 1, 2010 2:48pm
http://www.forex-tsd.com/commercial-...tml#post157547

This??
  • #5
  • Apr 1, 2010 3:13pm Apr 1, 2010 3:13pm
Interesting. It looks kind of pricey though. All I'm looking for is some sort of gateway (if that's what you call it?) so I can pickup one or two signals, and let the EA's take care of the rest.
  • #6
  • Apr 1, 2010 3:28pm Apr 1, 2010 3:28pm
A quick and dirty way is using a file. You'd have an EA running on the MT4 platform constantly polling for a file with a particular name. Another app would write whatever is needed to the file when whatever event occurs that you're looking for.

Not the fastest thing in the world but it'd be pretty reliable and would have a latency of a few hundred milliseconds. That might be fast for ya.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  • #7
  • Apr 1, 2010 3:37pm Apr 1, 2010 3:37pm
Hey, sounds great! So, which application would be writing the file? ... the other account app? And how would it know what to write? I mean how would it know that an "event" has occurred?
  • #8
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:05pm Apr 1, 2010 4:05pm
Oh, here's something interesting that I found by Googling. I might be able to make use out of this. And it looks like the download is free.
  • #9
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:10pm Apr 1, 2010 4:10pm
Quoting ecTrade
Oh, here's something interesting that I found by Googling. I might be able to make use out of this. And it looks like the download is free.
What is more interesting is to give a total newbie a trade copier , that copies opposite of his trades. Remember newbies will close profit 20-30 pips max and will not close losing trades until margin call!! lol
  • #10
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:40pm Apr 1, 2010 4:40pm
Quoting ecTrade
Oh, here's something interesting that I found by Googling. I might be able to make use out of this. And it looks like the download is free.
Oh well, it looks like the download is free, but you now have to purchase a key for $99 in order to enable it. He said it was free in the original post, and said later he would never charge anything for it but, what do you expect?
  • #11
  • Apr 1, 2010 4:51pm Apr 1, 2010 4:51pm
Quoting Brb-Fraudin
What is more interesting is to give a total newbie a trade copier , that copies opposite of his trades. Remember newbies will close profit 20-30 pips max and will not close losing trades until margin call!! lol
So, what are you saying? I don't intend to use it for copying trades from somebody else's account. I'm just looking for a way to pick up one or two signals, and send them to another account, both of which are mine.
  • #12
  • Apr 1, 2010 6:35pm Apr 1, 2010 6:35pm
Quoting ecTrade
So, what are you saying? I don't intend to use it for copying trades from somebody else's account. I'm just looking for a way to pick up one or two signals, and send them to another account, both of which are mine.
I was joking bro. But actually reversal EA's are also available for hedging purposes.
  • #13
  • Apr 1, 2010 9:23pm Apr 1, 2010 9:23pm
What, is this something you use on the same account? Or, does it simulate what the first account is doing in a second account and base the "hedges" upon that? I thought about doing something with the latter here, but figured it would be too much trouble trying to get the accounts synchronized. If you are only off by a little bit and don't get the trades to line up you may as well forget about it.

I think what I'm going to do for now or, until I find something better, is setup an alarm in the first account that tells me when it's time to hedge, and take it from there.
  • #14
  • Apr 1, 2010 9:58pm Apr 1, 2010 9:58pm
I have written codes for others in MT4 utilising process (Google for these terms)

interprocess communications
pipes
mailslots



Hope this helps.
  • #15
  • Apr 2, 2010 4:37am Apr 2, 2010 4:37am
Hey, I just briefly looked this up and there may in fact be something there. Thanks.
  • #16
  • Apr 2, 2010 5:16am Apr 2, 2010 5:16am
http://www.signalcopy.com/#nukeajax:c:@products:html
  • #17
  • Apr 2, 2010 7:02am Apr 2, 2010 7:02am
Is that the current link? I can't get it to load? ...
  • #18
  • Apr 2, 2010 9:47am Apr 2, 2010 9:47am
That's weird. These guys are showing up on Google but, for whatever reason the site is down. It's been about three hours now since I first tried loading the page?
  • #19
  • Last Post: Apr 3, 2010 12:19am Apr 3, 2010 12:19am
Hey, I think I found something here. It looks very simple, but I think it's all I need. Basically it sends and receives text strings (up to 255 characters) to a dll in the experts/libraries folders. And that's it. Currently I think it's only setup to copy trades from one account to another but, I think if I modify the variables, and the other account picks it up (via EA), it should know what to do with it.

It also mentions you need to have Net 2.0 installed. Does anyone know about that? How do you check to see if it's on your computer?

There is also an updated version (supposed to be a lot faster) which is posted here.
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