Getting information about the terminal

The terminal_info function allows you to get the status and parameters of the connected MetaTrader 5 terminal.

namedtuple terminal_info()

On success, the function returns the information as a structure of named tuples (namedtuple), and in case of an error, it returns None.

In one call of this function, you can get all the information that is provided by TerminalInfoInteger, TerminalInfoDouble, and TerminalInfoDouble in MQL5, with all variants of supported properties. The names of the fields in the tuple correspond to the names of the enumeration elements without the "TERMINAL_" prefix, reduced to lowercase.

For example (see MQL5/Scripts/MQL5Book/Python/terminalinfo.py):

import MetaTrader5 as mt5

# let's establish a connection to the MetaTrader 5 terminal
if not mt5.initialize():
   print("initialize() failed, error code =", mt5.last_error())
   quit()

# display brief information about the MetaTrader 5 version
print(mt5.version())
# display full information about the settings and the state of the terminal
terminal_info = mt5.terminal_info()
if terminal_info != None:
   # display terminal data as is
   print(terminal_info)
   # display the data as a dictionary
   print("Show terminal_info()._asdict():")
   terminal_info_dict = mt5.terminal_info()._asdict()
   for prop in terminal_info_dict:
      print("  {}={}".format(prop, terminal_info_dict[prop]))

# complete the connection to the MetaTrader 5 terminal
mt5.shutdown()

We should be something like the following.

[500, 3428, '14 Sep 2022']

TerminalInfo(community_account=True, community_connection=True, connected=True,....

Show terminal_info()._asdict():

community_account=True

community_connection=True

connected=True

dlls_allowed=False

trade_allowed=False

tradeapi_disabled=False

email_enabled=False

ftp_enabled=False

notifications_enabled=False

mqid=False

build=2366

maxbars=5000

codepage=1251

ping_last=77850

community_balance=707.10668201585

retransmission=0.0

company=MetaQuotes Software Corp.

name=MetaTrader 5

language=Russian

path=E:\ProgramFiles\MetaTrader 5

data_path=E:\ProgramFiles\MetaTrader 5

commondata_path=C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\Common

Getting information about a trading account

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