MetaTrader 5 (MT5) · Ghana
A minus in MetaTrader 5 does not mean one thing. In a single row it can mark the side a position was opened on, money that has left the account, or the direction of a move — three meanings sharing one symbol.
Open Exness Account →The minus sign in MetaTrader 5 carries three unrelated meanings and they appear in the same row. In a volume or direction column it marks which side a position was opened on. In a swap or commission column it marks money that has left the account. In a price or change column it marks the direction of a move and nothing else. Reading a row correctly means knowing which of the three is in front of you, and knowing which columns belong to the same money and can therefore be added together.
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.
MetaTrader 5 (MT5) at Exness
- A minus in front of a volume marks the side of a position, not a loss
- A minus in a swap or commission column marks money taken out, and it can sit under a position that is ahead overall
- A minus in a price-change column marks direction only, and says nothing about the account
- Colour comes from a scheme stored on the device: the same figure can be red on one machine and blue on another
- Result, overnight cost and opening cost are the same money and add up into one answer
- Figures on different scales never join that total, however neatly they line up in the table
- The summary line already contains the rows above it, so adding a row to it counts the same money twice
- A row read across answers a different question than the same row read column by column
Which Exness platform should you use?
| Platform | Pricing model | Suited to | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|
| MetaTrader 5 | Spread (+ commission on Raw/Zero) | Multi-asset traders who want the full toolkit | Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, Android |
| MetaTrader 4 | Spread (+ commission on Raw/Zero) | Forex traders who want the classic platform | Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, Android |
| Exness Terminal | Spread (+ commission on Raw/Zero) | Browser trading with no download | Any modern web browser |
| Exness Trade app | Spread (+ commission on Raw/Zero) | Managing trades and automatic withdrawals on the go | iOS, Android |
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Open Exness Account →Colour is a setting, not information
The terminal paints figures according to a colour scheme that lives on the machine, not in the account. The same position can appear red on a desktop and blue on a phone, and a scheme changed once to suit a dark background keeps applying afterwards. Colour is useful for finding a row quickly and useless for deciding what the row says.
The habit forms fast, which is what makes it awkward. After a few weeks red means bad before the number has been read at all, and a negative overnight charge on a position that is comfortably ahead gets treated as a problem. The sign has to be read together with the column heading; on its own it is half a sentence.
Which columns belong to the same money
Only figures denominated in the account currency can be added together, and in a position row that means three: where the position stands against its entry, what holding it overnight has taken, and what opening it cost. Their sum is what the position has actually done. Everything else on the row — the side, the volume, the entry price, the movement measured in the instrument's own units — sits on a different scale.
The mistake that follows from ignoring this is not arithmetic but attribution. A position showing a healthy figure in one column and a steady drain in another is not two separate stories; it is one result that has been split across columns for display.
The total at the bottom is not another column
The summary line under the list already contains the rows above it. Adding a row figure to the summary figure counts the same money twice, and the error is easy to make because both look like independent totals. The safer reading runs downwards: rows describe individual positions, the line underneath describes all of them at once, and the two are never combined.
Reading one row without guessing
- Start with the column heading rather than the number: the heading decides which of the three meanings the sign is carrying.
- Note the side of the position separately from any figure, so a direction label is never read as an amount.
- Take the account-currency columns together — result, overnight cost, opening cost — and treat their sum as the single answer for that position.
- Leave figures on any other scale out of that sum entirely: they answer a question about the instrument, not about the account.
- Read the summary line last, as a replacement for the rows above it rather than as an addition to them.
Colour can be used to find the row. It should not be used to decide what the row says.
What a minus means, column by column
| Where the minus appears | What it marks | Adds up with |
|---|---|---|
| Position side | The direction the position was opened in | Nothing — it is a label, not an amount |
| Swap | Money removed for holding a position overnight | Result and commission — same currency, same account |
| Commission | Money removed when the position was opened or closed | Result and swap — same currency, same account |
| Result of the position | Where the position stands now against where it opened | Swap and commission — the three together are the answer |
| Price change | Direction of the instrument since a reference point | Nothing — it is a movement, not a balance |
| Equity against balance | How far open positions sit from the settled figure | Nothing — equity already contains them |
Anything marked as adding up with nothing has to be read on its own; putting it into a total produces a number that describes nothing.
Frequently asked questions
Why does a minus appear on a position that is doing well?
Does a red figure always mean a loss?
Which columns in MT5 can be added together?
Why does adding a position figure to the total at the bottom give the wrong number?
A minus in front of the volume — is that a loss?
How can the same instrument show a minus in one place and a plus in another at the same moment?
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