Using MQL5 to Retrieve Binance Account Balances with Signed Requests

Summary

This tutorial describes how an MQL5 script can retrieve account balances from Binance through authenticated API requests. It begins by obtaining Binance’s server timestamp from a public endpoint, then outlines using that value with an API key and secret to create a signature for a private account query. It also covers sending requests with WebRequest, interpreting the response, and writing the returned balance data to a file.

The example illustrates practical API plumbing for trading software, including server-clock synchronization, request headers, response parsing, and file handling. Its stated purpose is to fetch balances across accessible assets; it does not describe a trading signal or evaluate a strategy. The excerpt includes a public timestamp request and mentions the signed balance retrieval flow, but provides no measured reliability or security assessment. Correct operation depends on enabling WebRequest access in platform settings and supplying valid credentials; the tutorial’s simple response handling should be treated as an implementation example rather than a complete production integration.

Key ideas

• Signed private requests use a timestamp, API credentials, and a generated signature.
• The tutorial obtains the timestamp from the exchange server to reduce failures caused by local clock differences.
• MQL5 WebRequest sends the HTTP query and returns response data and headers for processing.
• Account balance responses can be saved to a local text file for later use.
• The example is an API integration walkthrough and does not establish trading performance or production readiness.

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