Ctrader API questions

Hi,

will greatly appreciate replies from members with knowledge of computer/network connectivity.

ctrader generates a fix api with every trading account created. is it possible to copy that api and trade on a mt4 terminal? ie, execute trade on mt4 = execute trade on ctrader

Hello.
Short answer: Yes, like with any other automation platform with the capability to call Windows DLLs.

Long answer: The way you phrased your question shows that you don't really understand the terms you are using, so you have to get that right first.

1. cTrader does not generate a FIX api. It connects to a trade server using the FIX api. The FIX api is a communication protocol describing the "language" used to transfer information between client and server. The protocol is implemented by both ends, client and server. Both understand the same language, so they are able to communicate using this language. Very similar to real world communication. FIX is a standard for financial services communication and is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financ...ation_eXchange
2. The protocol is not related or bound to trading accounts in cTrader. Accounts merely represent users in the system.
3. If you want to trade in Metatrader and execute your trades in cTrader (instead of or parallel to Metatrader) you don't copy the API. What you want is to redirect or forward your trades to another application or another api.

Forwarding a trade from one api to another requires you to write a communication channel either between both applications or between both apis. It can be achieved in multiple ways and depends mainly on your coding skills:

You may directly talk to the cTrader trade server from MT4 without going through cTrader at all by implementing the FIX api cTrader uses in your Metatrader experts. This will be most probably very challenging but it's nevertheless possible.

Or you may communicate your trades from a Metrader expert to a cTrader script via inter-process communication, shared memory, QuickChannel, sockets or even via plain files. Whatever you like. Once the trades are known to cTrader, cTrader can use it's built-in FIX api implementation to execute them on the trade server. Of course all of this needs to be written by a coder.

In general the procedure is just the standard way any trade copier works. The fact that cTrader uses the FIX api is merely an implementation detail which should not bother you too much.

btw: Metatrader uses the FIX api, too. But you've never bothered about it, right? That's because usually you can't see it :-)

Let me rephrase, can anyone code(i'll pay) or does anyone have or direct me where to purchase a localized mt4 to ctrader copier. Lol. Thanks for your explanation tho.

I have made a lot of tools for cTrader platform, and have recently "played" with copying too - and here is my verdict :

1. official road through FIX API - is cool, but limited - it can only open \ close , but I have not found a way to modify volume - partially add, or partially take profit. and if that way is limited - I have stopped to build copier through it.

2. other way - I have already made a cBot (Telegram Communic) with ability to transmit ANY messages between different charts or even different cTrader instances (two different brokers) it was made to collect signals from different charts and indicators in one place - and to transmit them into Telegram Messenger. this way is unlimited - I am using windows pipes - so any message command can be send from one program to another. but I hate mql... ) so this way is only for programs written with c#.

3. I have found, and even tested one service. there is both free and paid options - for copying between MT and cT . It is called Duplikium - it was the only thing I found while I had stacked in the same "copying" need as you.

Here is a (paid) tool for use FIX over MT4: https://fixapitrading.com/