Metaquotes MQL5 - Python Backtrader - API

Development state: Alfa (Code not stable yet, documentation in development)

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Table of Contents

• About the Project
• [Installation and usage](#Installation and usage)
• Usage
• License

About The Project

This project was created to work as a broker for Backtrader trading framework. It uses ZeroMQ sockets to communicate. Python side of this project located here: Python Backtrader - Metaquotes MQL5

Working:

• Account info
• Balance info
• Historical data
• Live data
• Fetching orders/positions
• Order creation

Not working:

• Cancel order
• Close position
• Trades info
• Check socket connection
• Change timeframe and instrument symdol

Installation and usage

1. Inastall ZeroMQ for MQL5 https://github.com/dingmaotu/mql-zmq
2. Put 'include/json.mpq' from this repo to your host 'include' directoty.
3. Compile the code and attach it to chart in Metatrader 5.
4. This version dosn't support symbol and timeframe changing. You should control it yourself.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.