Backtesting and remote Expert Advisor compilation are genuinely useful — the edit-compile-test loop in MT4 is miserable, and doing it from an editor is a real gain. But the same connection places market orders against a live account, and there is no read-only mode described. If you connect it, connect it to a demo account until you have watched what it does. The file-based fallback is a nice touch that says the author has seen the HTTP bridge fail mid-session.
A bridge to MetaTrader 4, connecting through an HTTP endpoint and a companion Expert Advisor running inside the terminal, so a server on one machine can drive MT4 on another.
- Account information — balance, equity, margin
- Live market prices for symbols
- Placing market and pending orders; viewing and closing positions
- Trading history
- Backtesting Expert Advisors with detailed configuration
- Remote Expert Advisor development — create, edit, sync and compile, with compilation errors reported back
- A file-based fallback for status and results when the HTTP path fails
A MetaTrader 4 terminal with the companion Expert Advisor installed, plus Node for the server. The two can be on different machines — their documented setup runs the server on Linux against MT4 on Windows.
Build from source — clone the repository and build it, then point your client at the binary