- Overview of functions for getting account properties
- Identifying the account, client, server, and broker
- Account type: real, demo or contest
- Account currency
- Account type: netting or hedging
- Restrictions and permissions for account operations
- Account margin settings
- Current financial performance of the account
Account currency
Balance, profit, margin, commissions, and other financial indicators are always converted to the account currency in the end, even if the specifications for some trades require settlement in other currencies, for example, in the margin currency of a Forex pair.
The MQL5 API provides two properties that describe the account currency: its name and the accuracy of the representation, that is, the size of the minimum unit of measurement (such as cents).
Identifier |
Description |
|---|---|
ACCOUNT_CURRENCY |
Deposit currency (string) |
ACCOUNT_CURRENCY_DIGITS |
Number of decimal places for account currency required for the accurate display of trading results (integer) |
For example, for the demo account used to test the AccountInfo script in the section on Account identification, the ACCOUNT_CURRENCY property was "USD", and the accuracy of ACCOUNT_CURRENCY_DIGITS was 2 decimal places. We have used the ACCOUNT_CURRENCY_DIGITS property in the AccountMonitor class in the stringify method for values of type double (in the characteristics of the account, they are all associated with money).