how to get the time to open a closed trade

[ghs296]

hello everyone

I want to get the time to open a closed trade. I took help from artificial intelligence and it suggested this program line.

datetime openTime = HistoryDealGetInteger(lastDealTicket, DEAL_ENTRY_TIME);

But DEAL_ENTRY_TIME does not exist in mql5. You may help. thank you

[Conor Mcnamara]

ghs296:

hello everyone

I want to get the time to open a closed trade. I took help from artificial intelligence and it suggested this program line.

datetime openTime = HistoryDealGetInteger(lastDealTicket, DEAL_ENTRY_TIME);

But DEAL_ENTRY_TIME does not exist in mql5. You may help. thank you

DEAL_TIME

Use the documentation, it's giving the correct info

[Conor Mcnamara]

I see a code example also for this:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/trading/historydealgetinteger

[ghs296]

Conor Mcnamara #:

I see a code example also for this:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/trading/historydealgetinteger

Thank you for your attention, but I saw this document and DEAL_TIME is the closing time of the deal and not the opening time of the deal.

[Conor Mcnamara]

ghs296 #:
Thank you for your attention, but I saw this document and DEAL_TIME is the closing time of the deal and not the opening time of the deal.

A deal is only dealing with the closing time. So you don't work with deals then. You need to record the time when a position is executed and save TimeCurrent() in a variable.

if(tradeSignal && !finishedTrade){
        makeBuyPosition...
        positionOpenTime = TimeCurrent();
        finishedTrade = true;
}


now reset "finishdTrade" flag back to false inside a deal condition (or in another way)

better approach might be to use POSITION_TIME

for (int i = PositionsTotal() - 1; i >= 0; i--){

     
datetime positionOpenTime = PositionGetInteger(POSITION_TIME);
                                 
}

[ghs296]

Conor Mcnamara #:

A deal is only dealing with the closing time. So you don't work with deals then. You need to record the time when a position is executed and save TimeCurrent() in a variable.

better approach might be to use POSITION_TIME

Thanks a lot