A collection of tools for forex discussions over IRC.

1. Introduction
2. Installation
   1. Requirements
   2. Ømq
   3. Metatrader
   4. Phenny
3. Commands overview
4. Advanced Configuration

You can see a bot running here irc://chat.ircforex.com/eurusd.

[10:59:15] <daydayprofit> .eu bulls h1 14

[10:59:16] <cortex> -0.00190668;EURUSD;iBullsPower;60;14

[16:15:12] <naiv> .uj

[16:15:12] <cortex> 79.494 | 79.504 | Low 79.355 | High 79.673 | UTC 14:15:10

[16:43:41] <naiv> .time Chicago

[16:43:42] <cortex> it's 09:43 CDT-0500 in Chicago (14:43 UTC)

[16:43:53] <naiv> .place New York

[16:43:53] <cortex> New York will close in 5h17

• Wine development release - Run Windows applications on Linux

  With debian it's easier to use wine-unstable

• Metatrader 4 - Forex Trading Platform

  If your broker distributes a specific version, you might want to use it.

  I don't know if the tools will work under Metatrader 5, please leave me a message if you tried it.

• Phenny - Python IRC bot

Ømq is a socket library that we will use to exchange messages between MT4 and fxchat.

sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev

It's python bindings.

sudo easy_install pyzmq

This is a Ømq library for MT4.

Auto installation.

 Get commando.zip here http://codebase.mql4.com/7147
 Run commando.exe

You can also compile it but at the moment I'm writing the code isn't up to date.

Get zmq.zip here http://codebase.mql4.com/7147
Follow the instructions

Install the fxchat script for MT4.

# Configure the path to your metatrader directory
MT4="~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/OANDA - MetaTrader/"

cp Fxchat.mq4 $MT4/experts/scripts/

In the metaeditor, open the fxchat script, compile it, then drag it over a chart to activate it.

# Configure the path to your phenny directory
BOT="~/cortex/phenny/"

cp fxchat.py $BOT/modules/