README.md

Auto-trading backend for Exness exchange

A web crawler & backend for Exness MT5 trading platform. It is used to automate the trading process on the platform and provide APIs for the trading bot and the frontend.

Table of Contents

• Environment setup
• Configuration
• Start up
• References

Environment setup

1. Install Chrome
2. Find version of Chrome and find related version of ChromeDriver

   chrome://version

3. Install ChromeDriver
4. Install Selenium

pip install selenium

5. Install Pytest

Configuration

# src/.env

# Exness website login
LOGIN[email protected]
LOGIN_PASSWORD=*******

# MT5 account
ACCOUNT=12345678
PASSWORD=*******
SERVER=Exness-MT5Trial3

Start up

1. Copy MQL5/onTrade.mq5 into MetaEditor
2. Run API server

virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate   # source .venv/Scripts/activate  on Windows
./start.sh

3. make sure you have API server address whitelisted in the settings of MT5 before you start running MQL

References

• Python Integration With MT5

  • Return Code of the Trade Server
  • Trade Request Action
  • Order Filling Type

• List of Chrome URLs

  chrome://about/
  chrome://chrome-urls/
  chrome://flags/
  chrome://settings/
  chrome://version/

• Get User Data Directory of Chrome

  /Users/chunhao/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/