IPTRADE

Free, open-source trade copier for MetaTrader 4/5 and cTrader.

IPTRADE is a desktop app that copies trades between trading accounts in real time on your own computer. No cloud, no subscription, no account limits — your credentials and trading data never leave your machine.

• Website: jometa9.github.io/IPTRADE
• Downloads: Releases
• Landing page source: jometa9/IPTRADE
• MetaTrader EAs + bridge DLL source: jometa9/IPTRADE-BOTS

• Master/slave copy trading between any mix of MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader accounts
• Lot sizing per slave: fixed lot or multiplier, reverse trading, symbol prefix/suffix, symbol translations
• Live orders, balance/equity/PnL, trade history with calendar and statistics
• Local first: everything runs on 127.0.0.1, state stored encrypted on disk

Download from Releases:

• Windows: IPTRADE-Setup.exe
• macOS (Apple Silicon): IPTRADE-Setup.dmg

Builds are not code-signed (no paid Apple/Microsoft certificates), so the OS warns on first launch:

• macOS: if "IPTRADE is damaged / can't be opened" appears, run xattr -cr /Applications/IPTRADE.app in Terminal, or right-click the app → Open. On macOS 15+ allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway".
• Windows: in the SmartScreen dialog click "More info" → "Run anyway".

You can always audit exactly what you are running — this repository is the full source, and CI builds the installers from it.

Three processes, all local:

┌──────────────────────────── Electron shell ───────────────────────────┐
│  React UI (Vite)  ⇄  iptrade-api (Rust · axum)                        │
│                       HTTP 127.0.0.1:7777 · TCP 7776                  │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
        ▲ HTTP heartbeat + WebSocket                ▲ ProtoOA (TLS)
        │                                           │
  MetaTrader terminals                         cTrader servers
  IPTRADE EA + copybridge.dll                  (your own Open API app)

• electron/ — shell: spawns and supervises the Rust binary, tray, deep links (iptrade://), window lockdown.
• src/ — React UI (Vite + Tailwind + Radix).
• iptrade-api/ — Rust backend: copy engine, account state (encrypted at rest), TCP server for master→slave streaming, cTrader Open API client.
• bots/ — compiled MetaTrader artifacts (IPTRADE.ex4/.ex5 + copybridge.dll) that the app installs into your terminals on Windows. Their source lives in IPTRADE-BOTS.

• MetaTrader (Windows): the app installs the IPTRADE Expert Advisor into your MT4/MT5 terminals. The EA (through copybridge.dll) sends a heartbeat to POST /api/heartbeat on port 7777, exposes a local HTTP/WebSocket server for orders, and masters stream trade events to slaves over local TCP (one JSON object per line).
• cTrader: OAuth through your browser against your own cTrader Open API application (see below), then the app talks ProtoOA directly to Spotware servers.

IPTRADE does not ship embedded cTrader API credentials — you use your own (takes ~2 minutes, free):

1. Sign in at openapi.ctrader.com and create an application.
2. Set its Redirect URL to https://jometa9.github.io/IPTRADE/auth/local/callback (that page only forwards the OAuth code back into the app via the iptrade:// deep link — see its source).
3. In IPTRADE go to Config → cTrader API and paste the app's Client ID and Secret. They are stored encrypted on your machine only.

The Rust API binds to 127.0.0.1 and expects x-api-key / x-api-secret headers that the UI and the EAs share. These values are committed in the repo on purpose: they are a local handshake between processes on your own machine, not a secret — the API is never reachable from the network.

Prerequisites: Node 20+, Rust (stable). Windows additionally needs the MSVC toolchain.

npm ci
npm run dev        # builds the Rust API (debug), starts Vite + Electron

Useful env overrides in dev: CTRADER_CLIENT_ID / CTRADER_CLIENT_SECRET (skip the Config screen), RUST_BACKTRACE=1.

npm run build      # cargo build --release + vite build + electron-builder

• On macOS produces release/IPTRADE-Setup.dmg (arm64, ad-hoc signed).
• On Windows produces release/IPTRADE-Setup.exe (NSIS x64, unsigned).

Releases are built by GitHub Actions. Every push to main (except commits containing [skip ci]) bumps the patch version in package.json, tags it vX.Y.Z, builds macOS (arm64) and Windows (x64), and publishes a GitHub Release with IPTRADE-Setup.dmg, IPTRADE-Setup.zip and IPTRADE-Setup.exe. The workflow can also be started manually with Run workflow.

The app checks releases/latest (GitHub API) every 6 hours and shows an update banner when a newer version exists.

iptrade-api/Cargo.toml carries its own version that the workflow does not bump — update it by hand when you want it to track the app version.

Issues and PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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