# MQL5 SymbolInfoInteger()

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Returns one integer property of a symbol, such as its spread, or whether that spread floats.

- Function: `SymbolInfoInteger()`
- Interface: MQL5
- Group: Symbols and prices
- Status: verified. Source: [mql5.com](https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/marketinformation/symbolinfointeger), checked 2026-10-12.

This is an MQL5 function, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method, no path and no address to send a request to: it runs inside the MetaTrader 5 terminal, in a program written in MQL5. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it.

## Signature

The 2 forms of the call on the vendor's page, with the vendor's comments taken out.

```mql5
long SymbolInfoInteger(
  string name,
  ENUM_SYMBOL_INFO_INTEGER prop_id
)
```

```mql5
bool SymbolInfoInteger(
  string name,
  ENUM_SYMBOL_INFO_INTEGER prop_id,
  long& long_var
)
```

## Arguments

- `name` (type string, required): The symbol's name.
- `prop_id` (type ENUM_SYMBOL_INFO_INTEGER, required): Which property to return, as a value of the ENUM_SYMBOL_INFO_INTEGER enumeration.
- `long_var` (type long&, required): Only in the second form: the long variable that receives the value.

## Return value

- Type: `long, or bool in the second form`
- What comes back: The page gives two forms: one returns the value itself, the other returns true or false and writes the value into a variable passed by reference. On failure the page points to GetLastError() for the reason.

## Sample

Written by this site from the signature and arguments recorded on this page. It has not been run against a terminal, a server or an account, and the values in it are placeholders. It holds no credential and needs none: the program runs inside a terminal that is already logged in to an account. Nothing is entered on this site.

```mql5
void OnStart()
  {
   PrintFormat("spread %I64d points, floating: %s",SymbolInfoInteger(_Symbol,SYMBOL_SPREAD),SymbolInfoInteger(_Symbol,SYMBOL_SPREAD_FLOAT)?"yes":"no");
  }
```

## Related MQL5 functions: Symbols and prices

- [SymbolInfoDouble()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolinfodouble): Returns one floating point property of a symbol, such as its bid, its ask or its point size.
- [SymbolInfoString()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolinfostring): Returns one text property of a symbol, such as its description or its base and profit currencies.
- [SymbolInfoTick()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolinfotick): Writes the current prices of a symbol, with the time they were last updated, into an MqlTick structure.
- [SymbolName()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolname): Returns the name of the symbol at a place in the list of symbols.
- [SymbolSelect()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolselect): Adds a symbol to the Market Watch window, or removes it.
- [SymbolsTotal()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/mql5-symbolstotal): Returns how many symbols are available: those selected in Market Watch, or all of them.

## More on MetaTrader 5

- [All MetaTrader 5 functions](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions): 78 documented here, grouped by what they do.
- [Instrument search: the call at each API](https://openbrokerapi.com/endpoints/instrument-search): The same job at every broker and platform API recorded here, HTTP or not.
- [MetaTrader 5 API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/quickstart)
- [All MetaTrader 5 error codes](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/mt5)
- [MetaTrader 5 API page](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5): The full record: access, authentication, limits and the source for each.

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