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Seamlessly link any Trading Strategy in ANY programming language to Darwinex liquidity via MetaTrader 4 or 5. DWX Connect is your very own, fully customizable Trading API!
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Comparison to official MetaTrader module for integration with Python #31

Closed jmakov closed 1 year ago

jmakov commented 1 year ago

Hi, first thanks for your work! I stumbled upon https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/integration/python_metatrader5 and am wondering how is dwconnect different (other than it can also be used with other languages). And if there are any limitations.

piotryordanov commented 1 year ago

You can't do on_tick this way in the python implementation. That along with other stuff

jmakov commented 1 year ago

You can't do on_tick this way in the python implementation. That along with other stuff

Not clear which python implementation you mean - dwxconnect or MT5? Also what other stuff? :)

piotryordanov commented 1 year ago

With the python implementation of MQL, you are unable to watch for events. YOu have to instead poll yourself.

With DWX, you don't have to worry about it, because that is done directly by using the file system vs, say, a socket. If you do want to use sockets to communicate between MQL and python, you need to enable them in Terminal. And it is quite unreliable.

Also, the python implementation only work under windows as that's where the pip package is. This means that u have to be under wine. The DWX_Connect does not need to be under windows, thus making it more robust and simple to develop with it.

jmakov commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the clarification!