Calling Empty4 commands externally (e.g. from C++)

[ninety47]

Happy New Year everyone!

I've written a pile of code for automating elements of my trading. I want this code to remain independent of the trading platform it interacts with - particularly I'd like to get away from having to write wrappers for MQL4 or other half baked proprietary programming languages trading platform vendors insist on producing. My account isn't large enough to have access to the FIX API (which is pretty ugly in itself). I'm also looking at the FXCM and Dukascopy JAVA APIs but would like to keep working with my current brokers (for now) who currently only offer Empty4 for small accounts like mine.

My goal is to have a C/C++ interface to execute Empty4 terminal commands. Such an interface could easily be call from R, Python etc etc.
Essentially I'm after the same features a MAM/PAMM applications offered to money managers but at an API level no through a pretty GUI.

Has anyone done this already or found reasons for it not to work?

Regards,

ninety47

Note: this is a cross forum post (I've also posed the same question over in the platform tech section of ForexFactory)

[phil_trade]

Hi Ninety47

Yes I have already do a similar job with this API integrated via .NET in my Windev software development http://www.mt4api.net/

You can execute multi-instance of Empty4 and simulate PAMM/MAM account. I'm currently driving 14 customer's Empty4 from different broker and it's running 24/24H since 03/2013.

cheers

Philippe