MT5 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.
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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.
The page shows three forms of the call: an interval with an optional group filter, a ticket alone, and a position alone. The two dates are required only in the first form.
Signature
The 3 forms of the call on the vendor's page, with the vendor's comments taken out.
history_orders_get( date_from, date_to, group="GROUP" )
history_orders_get( ticket=TICKET )
history_orders_get( position=POSITION )
Arguments
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date_fromrequired | datetime or int | 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_torequired | datetime or int | The end of the interval, given the same way. Required in that form, where it comes second. |
| group | Not stated | 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 | Not stated | The ticket of the one order wanted. Used on its own, in place of the interval. |
| position | Not stated | A position's ticket, to return every order that carries it in its ORDER_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 order. On failure the page says it returns None, and that last_error() gives the reason.
Sample
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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)
orders = mt5.history_orders_get(start, end, group="*USD*")
for o in orders or ():
print(o.ticket, o.symbol, o.type, o.volume_initial, o.state)
mt5.shutdown()