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I want to get the amount of open trades in MQL5 on a demo account during strategy testing.

PositionsTotal() and OrdersTotal() always return 0 even if there are open trades.

The solution suggested here does not work.

Any help will be appreciated.

user3666197
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Freek Nortier
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  • **Would you mind to add a few PrintScreens and source code**, to show exactly the colliding case ( having Orders in StrategyTester while having no such reported in OrdersTotal() )? – user3666197 Jan 09 '16 at 01:04
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    `PostionsTotal()` always gets the number of open positions just as `OrdersTotal()` gets the number of open pending orders, doesnt matter which client of `MetaTrader5` you are running. If you want more help you need to provide a code sample. – Vitor Santos Apr 05 '17 at 01:41

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The problem occurred when running the code in the Metatrader 5 downloaded from Metaquotes' website. Running the same code in a Metatrader 5 instance from a forex broker resolved the issue.

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according to https://mql5tutorial.com/mql5-tutorial-how-to-simply-count-positions-with-mql5/, you can use the following code for doing this

void OnTick()

{

int PositionForThisCurrencyPair = 0;

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

if(Symbol() == symbol)

{   

PositionForThisCurrencyPair+=1 ;

}
}

Comment("\n\n positions for this currency pair:",PositionForThisCurrencyPair);
}
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