aiomql/docs/lib/terminal.md

Terminal

Table of Contents

• Terminal
• initialize
• version
• info
• symbols_total

Terminal

class Terminal(TerminalInfo)

Terminal Class. Get information about the MetaTrader 5 terminal. The class is a subclass of the TerminalInfo class. It inherits all the attributes and methods of the TerminalInfo class and adds some useful methods.

Attributes

Name	Type	Description	Default
initialized	bool	check if initial request has been sent to the terminal to get terminal info.	False
mt5	MetaTrader	MetaTrader instance	None
config	Config	Config instance	None

initialize

async def initialize() -> bool

Establish a connection with the MetaTrader 5 terminal. There are three call options. Call without parameters. The terminal for connection is found automatically. Call specifying the path to the MetaTrader 5 terminal we want to connect to. word path as a keyword argument Call specifying the trading account path and parameters i.e. login, password, server, as keyword arguments, path can be omitted.

Returns

Type	Description
bool	True if successful else False

version

async def version()

Get the MetaTrader 5 terminal version. This method returns the terminal version, build and release date as a tuple of three values

Returns

Type	Description
Version	version of tuple as Version object

Raises

Exception	Description
ValueError	If the terminal version cannot be obtained

info

async def info()

Get the connected MetaTrader 5 client terminal status and settings. gets terminal info in the form of a named tuple structure (namedtuple). Return None in case of an error. The info on the error can be obtained using last_error().

Returns

Type	Description
TerminalInfo	Terminal status and settings as a terminal object.

symbols_total

async def symbols_total() -> int

Get the number of all financial instruments in the MetaTrader 5 terminal.

Returns

Type	Description
int	Total number of available symbols