# MT5 Python history_deals_get()

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Returns deals from the account's trading history: those between two dates, optionally filtered by symbol, or those of one order, or those of one position.

- Function: `history_deals_get()`
- Interface: MetaTrader5 Python package
- Group: History
- Status: verified. Source: [mql5.com](https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/python_metatrader5/mt5historydealsget_py), checked 2026-10-12.

This is a Python function, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method, no path and no address to send a request to: the package talks to a MetaTrader 5 terminal running on the same computer. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it.

Note: The page shows three forms of the call: an interval with an optional group filter, an order ticket alone, and a position alone. The two dates are required only in the first form. A deal is one execution, so one order can produce several.

## Signature

The 3 forms of the call on the vendor's page, with the vendor's comments taken out.

```python
history_deals_get(
  date_from,
  date_to,
  group="GROUP"
)
```

```python
history_deals_get(
  ticket=TICKET
)
```

```python
history_deals_get(
  position=POSITION
)
```

## Arguments

- `date_from` (type datetime or int, required): The start of the interval. The page says it is given as a datetime object or as a number of seconds since 1 January 1970. Required in the form of the call that takes an interval, where it comes first.
- `date_to` (type datetime or int, required): The end of the interval, given the same way. Required in that form, where it comes second.
- `group` (type not stated, optional): A filter on symbol names. The page describes it as comma separated conditions, where \* is a wildcard and a leading ! excludes, applied in the order given.
- `ticket` (type not stated, optional): An order's ticket, to return every deal that carries it in its DEAL_ORDER property. Used on its own, in place of the interval.
- `position` (type not stated, optional): A position's ticket, to return every deal that carries it in its DEAL_POSITION_ID property. Used on its own, in place of the interval.

## Return value

- Type: `tuple of namedtuples, or None`
- What comes back: One named tuple per deal. On failure the page says it returns None, and that last_error() gives the reason.

## Sample

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```python
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import MetaTrader5 as mt5

if not mt5.initialize():
    raise SystemExit(f"initialize() failed: {mt5.last_error()}")

start = datetime(2026, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
end = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
deals = mt5.history_deals_get(start, end)
for d in deals or ():
    print(d.ticket, d.symbol, d.volume, d.price, d.profit, d.commission)

mt5.shutdown()
```

## Related MT5 Python functions: History

- [history_deals_total()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-history-deals-total): Returns how many deals are in the account's trading history between two dates.
- [history_orders_get()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-history-orders-get): Returns orders from the account's trading history: those between two dates, optionally filtered by symbol, or the one with a given ticket, or those of one position.
- [history_orders_total()](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-history-orders-total): Returns how many orders are in the account's trading history between two dates.

## More on MetaTrader 5

- [All MetaTrader 5 functions](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions): 78 documented here, grouped by what they do.
- [Trade history: the call at each API](https://openbrokerapi.com/endpoints/history): 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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Cite as: MT5 Python history_deals_get(). Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5/functions/python-history-deals-get, newest check 2026-10-12.

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