Manual transactions or by expert

[Seyedbehrang Mousavi]

Hi

Is there a way to determine which trades were taken with expert and which were entered manually in the history of Metatrader (4 or 5)?

[Carl Schreiber]

Normally an EA provides its trades with its individual MagicNumber while manual trades have a MagicNumber of 0: https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/constants/structures/mqltraderequest

magic

Expert Advisor ID. It allows organizing analytical processing of trade orders. Each Expert Advisor can set its own unique ID when sending a trade request.

[Fernando Carreiro]

Seyedbehrang Mousavi: Is there a way to determine which trades were taken with expert and which were entered manually in the history of Metatrader (4 or 5)?

Yes! Just hover your mouse over the trade and a tooltip will pop up, indicating the type of trade.

[Ricardo Rodrigues Lucca]

Seyedbehrang Mousavi:

Hi

Is there a way to determine which trades were taken with expert and which were entered manually in the history of Metatrader (4 or 5)?

In the "Deal" structure there is a field called "reason" (ENUM_DEAL_REASON) that can be used to find out whether it was manual or automatic, regardless of the magic number.

[Fernando Carreiro]

In MQL5 code ...

... evaluate the reason for order placement (  ENUM_ORDER_REASON )  ...

ORDER_REASON_CLIENT	The order was placed from a desktop terminal
ORDER_REASON_MOBILE	The order was placed from a mobile application
ORDER_REASON_WEB	The order was placed from a web platform
ORDER_REASON_EXPERT	The order was placed from an MQL5-program, i.e. by an Expert Advisor or a script

... evaluate the reason for deal execution ( ENUM_DEAL_REASON )  ...

DEAL_REASON_CLIENT	The deal was executed as a result of activation of an order placed from a desktop terminal
DEAL_REASON_MOBILE	The deal was executed as a result of activation of an order placed from a mobile application
DEAL_REASON_WEB	The deal was executed as a result of activation of an order placed from the web platform
DEAL_REASON_EXPERT	The deal was executed as a result of activation of an order placed from an MQL5 program, i.e. an Expert Advisor or a script

[Fernando Carreiro]

In MQL4 code ...

It is only partially possible by looking at the magic number to see if it is non-zero (placed by an EA).

If it is a zero magic number, then it will remain unclear, but in most cases it will be manual.

OrderMagicNumber

Returns an identifying (magic) number of the currently selected order