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Reputation: 3953

Meta Trader 5 - How to get no of decimals of current market

I'm fairly new to Meta Trader 5. I would like to know how I can determine the number of digits behind the decimal point for a market for the price calculation.

Example: The DAX is traded as of 1 point. There is also a decimal place, but if I put, for example, one euro per point, I receive 1 euro when the DAX rises from 15000 to 15001.

With gold it is different. There I also have a decimal place. Here, however, the point is fixed at 0.1, i.e. if I put one euro per point, I get 10 € when the gold price rises from 2000 to 2001.

I already found out that there are some infos, but currently not what I need:

#include <Trade/PositionInfo.mqh>

CSymbolInfo symbolInfo;
SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol,SYMBOL_POINT); //DAX = 0.1 - Why?
SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol,SYMBOL_VOLUME_STEP);
symbolInfo.Digits(); //0.0 always - Why?
...

and so on. But no one of these provided me the market information I need. I mean

DAX = 1

Gold = 0.1

Forex = 0.0001

...

So how do I get this information out of the Meta Trader system?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 528

Answers (1)

PaulB
PaulB

Reputation: 1403

You have two options in MQL5.

You can get the number of digits for the current chart symbol using

int Digits();

Or you can get the digits for any chart using

long SymbolInfoInteger(symbol, SYMBOL_DIGITS);

Upvotes: 0

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