MT5 trade history on your phone: where it is and how to read it

A plain guide to the History screen in the MetaTrader 5 app on Android and iPhone, and how it connects to a desktop trading journal.

You closed a trade while away from your desk and now you want to see what it actually made. The MetaTrader 5 mobile app can show it, but the layout is not the same as the desktop terminal, and the mobile screens are easy to misread. This page explains where closed trades live in the MT5 app on Android and iPhone, how the three views differ, why the numbers can look different from a desktop report, and how phone history fits with a trading journal that reads the desktop terminal.

Where history lives in the mobile app

In the MetaTrader 5 mobile app the bottom bar has a Trade screen for open positions and pending orders and a History screen for what already happened. Both Android and iOS builds follow this idea, but button positions, filters and names move between releases, so treat the steps below as a map and check your own app. Broker guides for MT5 mobile describe the same split: open and pending items on one screen, finished items on the other.

On the History screen you can normally change the time range (a day, a week, a month, or a custom range) and switch between ways of looking at the same account activity. If your history looks empty, the range is the first thing to widen. It is the same cause as on the desktop, described in why MT5 trade history is not showing.

Positions, orders and deals on a phone

MetaTrader 5 records three different things for every trade, and the mobile History screen can show them separately. A position is the trade as you think of it: one entry, one exit, one result. An order is an instruction you sent to the server, such as a market buy or a pending limit. A deal is a single execution that resulted from an order. One position is usually made of at least two deals, an opening one and a closing one, and a partial close adds more.

If you only want to know whether last night’s trade won or lost, the positions view is the quickest. If a total looks wrong, the deals view shows the pieces. The full vocabulary is in deal, order and position IDs explained, and the desktop equivalents are in the Journal tab explained.

Why phone numbers can differ from a desktop report

• Different date range. The phone may be showing a week while your desktop report covers a month.
• Commission and swap. A row can show profit alone while the net result is profit plus commission plus swap. Read the details screen, not only the list.
• Server time. Times are shown on your broker’s server clock, not your phone’s time zone, which can move a late trade onto the next date. See MT5 server time explained.
• Partial closes. The deals view lists each partial exit; the positions view combines them. See partial closes in trade history.
• Rounding and currency. The phone rounds display values; sums of rounded rows can differ by a cent from the account figure.

What you can and cannot do from the phone

The phone is good for checking. It is awkward for studying. You can read a result, open the details of a trade and look at the chart, but you cannot easily tag a setup, rate your discipline, write a paragraph about how you felt, or compare a month of trades by weekday. Those are journal jobs, and they are far easier on a larger screen with a keyboard.

A realistic habit is to use the phone for monitoring and the desktop for reviewing. During the day you glance at the app. In the evening you open the journal and do the reflective work on the closed trades. The mobile history is the same account history your desktop terminal shows, because both read from the broker’s server.

How the desktop journal picks up trades you closed on a phone

AI Trading Journal is a Windows desktop app for MetaTrader 5. It is read-only: it never places, modifies or closes a trade. It reads the terminal running on your PC, and the history that terminal can see includes trades you opened or closed from your phone, because they happen on the same account. The first run reads the whole account history, and then a scheduled task adds new closed trades about every five minutes. One entry is created per closed position, with partial closes combined and the date taken from the last exit on the broker’s clock.

There is one condition. The desktop terminal must be running and logged in to the same account for the app to read it. If your PC was off all day, the trades closed on the phone appear after you start the terminal and the next sync runs. We have no phone or web version of the app, so the notes, tags and screenshots you add are made on the PC.

A worked example (hypothetical)

Imagine a gold trade opened on the PC in the morning and closed from the phone at lunch with a total of 0.30 lots exited in two parts: 0.10 lots first, then 0.20 lots. The phone positions view shows one row with the combined result of, say, +42.00. The deals view shows the opening deal and two closing deals, with a commission on each. The journal creates one entry dated by the second exit. In the evening you add the setup, rate the trade 3 out of 5 because you moved your stop, and attach a screenshot. The phone gave you the quick check; the desktop gave you the review. The numbers are made up for illustration.

Limits of this page

• Menu names and screens in the mobile app change between versions and brokers. Check your own app.
• We have not published step-by-step screenshots for every Android and iOS version, and do not claim identical behaviour on all of them.
• We make AI Trading Journal and benefit if you buy it; this page is about reading history, not about buying anything.
• This is not trading advice.

If you want the desktop side next, read how to export MT5 trade history or see how to track MT5 trades automatically.

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