Switching between different Accounts

[libby000]

Hi 

Is there a way to toggle through different MT5 accounts using a mql5 script or EA?

I would like to do that for 2 reasons:

1.  to get the account balances from different MT5 accounts

2. close all open trades from different MT5 accounts

Is there anyone that can help me.

Thanks in advance.

[libby000]

Any ideas on how to do this?

[Marco vd Heijden]

Hi please see

initialize(    path,                     // path to the MetaTrader 5 terminal EXE file    login=LOGIN,              // account number    password="PASSWORD",      // password    server="SERVER",          // server name as it is specified in the terminal    timeout=TIMEOUT,          // timeout    portable=False            // portable mode    )

[libby000]

Marco vd Heijden:

Hi please see

initialize(    path,                     // path to the MetaTrader 5 terminal EXE file    login=LOGIN,              // account number    password="PASSWORD",      // password    server="SERVER",          // server name as it is specified in the terminal    timeout=TIMEOUT,          // timeout    portable=False            // portable mode    )

Thank you so much.
This was such a great help :-)

[Marco vd Heijden]

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/integration/python_metatrader5/mt5initialize_py

If you read in the login credentials from an external file make sure to cast the account number to Int.

[libby000]

I have another question in regard to the path for mt5.initialize

I have this code in python

if not mt5.initialize(login=accNumber, server="ICMarkets-MT5",password=pword):

which works fine, now I want to add the path, and I have tried

if not mt5.initialize(path="E:\Programs\ICMarkets-MT5-Demo", login=accNumber, server="ICMarkets-MT5",password=pword):

which gives me this error

initialize() failed, error code = (-10003, "IPC initialize failed, Process create failed 'E:/Programs/ICMarkets-MT5-Demo'")

I have tried using \\ and / and // instead as well as single quote, all with the same result.

Any ideas?

[Vicente Escuer]

You must include terminal64.exe in path. This worked for me: 

path1='C:\\Program Files\\Capitaria MT5 Terminal\\terminal64.exe'

path2='C:\\Program Files\\Admiral Markets MT5\\terminal64.exe'