MetaTrader 5 — what totals by itself and what has to be assembled — Pakistan
MetaTrader 5 totals what belongs to one account and leaves everything else to be combined by hand: a figure that spans several positions is usually built rather than read.
Open Exness Account →MetaTrader 5 sums what belongs to one account: the running result of all open positions and the margin they occupy together. It does not sum risk. A point is worth a different amount on each instrument, a series of entries on one idea is a single exposure shown as several lines, and pending orders stay outside the totals until they trigger — so any figure that spans positions is assembled by hand from account-currency amounts.
Measured order execution — Standard
How orders actually filled when real market orders were placed on Exness’s MT5 feed — fill time, slippage and rejects by order size:
| Instrument | Order size | Avg fill | Avg slippage | Fails |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EURUSDm | 0.01 lot | 151 ms | -0.333 pts | 0 |
| EURUSDm | 0.1 lot | 151 ms | -0.333 pts | 0 |
| EURUSDm | 1.0 lot | 146 ms | -0.333 pts | 0 |
| GBPUSDm | 0.01 lot | 141 ms | 0.667 pts | 0 |
| GBPUSDm | 0.1 lot | 130 ms | 0.0 pts | 0 |
| GBPUSDm | 1.0 lot | 135 ms | 0.333 pts | 0 |
| XAUUSDm | 0.01 lot | 141 ms | 0.0 pts | 0 |
| XAUUSDm | 0.1 lot | 151 ms | 80.0 pts | 0 |
| XAUUSDm | 1.0 lot | 130 ms | -72.333 pts | 0 |
Small sample (a few round-trips per size); indicative. The same pricing engine feeds every platform the broker offers.
What MetaTrader 5 totals, and what it leaves to you
- The platform adds up the running result of every open position and the margin they occupy together.
- An account total answers what the account is worth now, not how much of it depends on a single idea.
- Positions on different instruments do not add into one risk figure, because a point is worth a different amount on each of them.
- A series of entries built on one idea appears as separate lines and behaves as one exposure.
- Two instruments that move together are not two independent risks, and no field on the screen says so.
- Closing part of a series changes the average price of what remains, which is a figure to recompute rather than to read.
- Pending orders stay outside the totals until they trigger, so a planned exposure has to be added by hand.
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Open Exness Account →What the platform adds up on its own
Two totals are produced without asking. The first is the running result of everything open, in the account currency. The second is the margin those positions occupy together, which is what free margin is measured against. Both are correct and both answer the same narrow question: what the account is worth at this instant.
That question is not the one asked before adding another position. For that, the number needed is how much of the account already depends on one idea, and the platform has no column for ideas.
Three cases where the account total is misleading
Different instruments. Each line shows an amount already converted into the account currency, so the totals add correctly — but the exposures behind them do not, because a point is worth a different amount on each instrument and the distances to their levels are not comparable.
A series on one idea. Three entries on the same instrument are three lines and one exposure. The total is right; the count of independent risks is one, not three.
Pending orders. They occupy no margin and appear in no total until they trigger, which means the account can look comfortable and still be one price away from a much larger occupied margin.
Assembling one figure by hand
The reliable unit is money in the account currency. Convert each position’s distance to its exit level into that unit using the point value at its own volume, then group the results by idea rather than by ticket and add the groups. The trading calculator gives the per-position conversion.
Two counts are worth keeping beside the platform total: the number of independent ideas open, and the margin the whole set would occupy if everything pending triggered.
Building one figure across open positions
- List the open positions and group them by the idea they were opened on rather than by ticket.
- For each position, express the distance to its exit level in the account currency using the point value at its volume.
- Add the amounts inside each group, then add the groups — that sum is exposure, and it is not the total on the screen.
- Add the margin any pending orders would require if they triggered, because the platform does not include them.
- Compare the result with free margin rather than with balance.
The number of lines on the screen and the number of independent exposures are different counts.
Summed by the platform, or assembled by hand
| Figure | Summed by the platform | How it is assembled otherwise |
|---|---|---|
| Running result of open positions | Yes | No work needed |
| Margin used by open positions | Yes | No work needed |
| Exposure to one idea across several entries | No | Group the entries and add their amounts |
| Risk across different instruments | No | Convert each into the account currency at its own point value first |
| Margin a pending order would require | No | Compute it from nominal and leverage before it triggers |
| Average price of a partly closed series | No | Recompute from the volumes that remain |
Frequently asked questions
What does MT5 total by itself?
Why can positions on different instruments not simply be added?
Does a series of entries on one idea count as one position?
Are pending orders included in the account totals?
What happens to the average price when part of a series is closed?
Which figure should be compared with free margin?
Reviews
What traders say about Exness on MetaTrader 5:
The application like mt5 is easy and simple to operate, and also provide a simple user interface 👍
Plataforma sencilla, intuitiva, no sustituye Mt5 en la pc, pero es muy buena.
Boa noite, finalmente arrumaram esse sistema de execução de ordem no mt5. As derrapagem que estavam acontecendo no servidor eram. desanimadora. Melhoraram galera da pra operar novamente na exness amém vamos pra cima.
Not right for MetaTrader5. I lost so much money with inaccurate graphs. Rather go somewhere else