Zorro + Darwinex MT4 setup on Linux via Docker

Based on nevmerzhitsky/headless-metatrader4

This repository contains binaries which are freely available from:

• Zorro Download Page
• Download the Darwinex MT4/MT5 Platform

If I am inadvertently in violation of their license by including them here then I will happily remove them.

Make a private copy for yourself so you can update the files in secrets/ without giving away your credentials.

There's probably a better way to do this but this way is quite convenient.

An alternative to this is that you can also copy your secrets over the top of the templates provided immediately prior to building and running the container.

Choose an AMI, anything that can run Docker is fine.

Install the AWS tools.

sudo apt install -y awscli

Install docker.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y docker.io

Allow current user to run docker.

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Install git.

sudo yum install -y git

Install docker.

sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
sudo service docker start

Make docker auto-start.

sudo chkconfig docker on

Allow current user to run docker.

sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER

If you have a fast local disk you may want to use it, this won't be persisted if your spot instance gets terminated though.

Create a file /etc/docker/daemon.json to move the docker storage location. This requires at least 5 GiB currently.

{
  "data-root": "/mnt/docker"
}

note: I ended up not using this, but thought I would document it as I thought it may be useful to someone.

Clone this repo.

git clone [email protected]:<user>/rapier

Copy your secrets/ into place unless they're already committed to the cloned repo.

(optional) Enable vi mode in the shell so you don't go insane.

cp rapier/bashrc .bashrc
cp rapier/inputrc .inputrc

Log out and log back in for the .bashrc changes + docker permissions to take effect.

(optional) Update DNS info.

You will need to modify the shell script to have the desired hosted zone and recordset first.

rapier/bin/update-route53.sh

(optional) Start a screen session so that you can exit the shell and everything will keep running.

screen -R

Start the container.

rapier/bin/run.sh

(optional) Detach from the screen session and logout.

<Ctrl-A> <Ctrl-D>
exit

You can reattach to the session by using screen -R again.