Quick Guide to Access Last Closed Trade Data in MetaTrader 5

If you're looking to quickly access the details of your last closed trade in MetaTrader 5, you're in the right place! This guide will walk you through a straightforward code snippet that retrieves this information without the hassle of loops.

Getting Started

• First, you might want to create a variable to set the current day's start time, although this step isn't strictly necessary.
• It’s also a good idea to create additional variables to help with chart output, which can be useful in other parts of your code.
• By placing this code inside the OnTick(); function, you can display results for every tick. Alternatively, you can set it to run once per bar.

Code Example

// Variables
string DayStart = "00:00"; // Day Start Time
double LastClosed_Profit; // Last Closed trade profit
string TradeSymbol, TradeType;

// Expert Initializing --------------------
int OnInit()
  {
   return(INIT_SUCCEEDED);
  }

// Expert DeInitializing -------------------
void OnDeinit(const int reason)
  {
  }

// Expert OnTick --------------------------
void OnTick()
  {
   // Check for last closed trade.
   CheckLastClosed();
  }

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void CheckLastClosed()
  {
   datetime HistoryTime = StringToTime(DayStart);

   // History from "Day beginning to current time"
   if(HistorySelect(HistoryTime,TimeCurrent))
     {
      int Total = HistoryDealsTotal();

      // Get the last deal ticket number and select it for further work.
      ulong Ticket = HistoryDealGetTicket(Total -1);

      // Retrieve the necessary data.
      LastClosed_Profit = NormalizeDouble(HistoryDealGetDouble(Ticket,DEAL_PROFIT),2);
      TradeSymbol      = HistoryOrderGetString(Ticket,ORDER_SYMBOL);

      // Identify a sell trade.
      if(HistoryDealGetInteger(Ticket,DEAL_TYPE) == DEAL_TYPE_BUY)
        {
         TradeType = "Sell Trade";
        }

      // Identify a buy trade
      if(HistoryDealGetInteger(Ticket,DEAL_TYPE) == DEAL_TYPE_SELL)
        {
         TradeType = "Buy Trade";
        }

      // Output to chart.
      Comment("\n","Deals Total - :  ", Total,
              "\n","Last Deal Ticket - :  ", Ticket,
              "\n", "Last Closed Profit -:  ", LastClosed_Profit,
              "\n", "Last Trade was -:  ", TradeType);

     }
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can also retrieve the entire trading history from the very start of your account using the HistorySelect(); function like this:

// Get entire history
HistorySelect(0,TimeCurrent());