FxPro Margin & Pip Calculator
FxPro provides trading calculators so you can work out margin, pip value and potential profit or loss before placing a trade.
Open FxPro Account →A calculator is most useful as a habit, not as a tool. Run it before the order rather than after the idea has already settled, and write the number it gives you into the journal at entry - that single line is what makes the following week reviewable. The size you grew comfortable with in practice was formed on a balance that could not hurt you, and the same size reads very differently once it can, which is why a first live order usually wants to be smaller than the demo habit. The calculator settles the arithmetic in seconds. What it cannot settle is whether you will use the answer or override it, and only your own order history, read a week later, tells you which of those you did.
Measured contract values for your calculations
Read live from FxPro’s MT5 Raw+ feed — the contract size, tick value, lot limits and average daily range behind any margin, pip-value, stop-size or profit calculation:
| Instrument | Contract size | Tick value (USD) | Min lot | Max lot | Avg daily range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 55.3 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 72.4 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 48.7 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 56.8 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.63 | 0.01 | 500 | 136.5 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 8753.8 pips |
Tick value is the cash change per minimum price move, per standard lot; the 14-day average daily range helps you size stops and targets. Account stop-out levels (measured): margin call at 10%, stop-out at 0% — confirm the live values in your terminal.
Work out your margin
Margin = position size ÷ leverage. Approximate, for USD-quoted forex pairs (1 standard lot = 100,000 units); margin is shown in USD and varies with the live price. Your exact margin appears in your FxPro platform.
FxPro trading calculators
- Margin calculator — how much margin a position requires
- Pip calculator — the value of a pip in your account currency
- Profit/loss and swap calculators for trade planning
- Available inside the FxPro platforms
Plan before you trade
Use the calculators alongside our spreads and swap rates pages to estimate your total trading costs.
Open FxPro Account →Where the calculator belongs in the routine
The order that matters is: idea, then number, then order. Reversed - idea, order, number - the calculator becomes a way of confirming a decision that was already made, and confirmation is the one thing a beginner does not need more of.
Practise the sequence on the demo until it is automatic, because a habit formed under no pressure is the only kind that survives the first live week. The mechanics are identical on both sides, so there is nothing to relearn later.
Then write the number down. Not the calculation - the number, and the size you settled on. It takes a few seconds and it is the difference between a review that reads evidence and a review that reads memory.
Why the demo size is the wrong starting point
Comfort with a size is learned, and it is learned against a balance. On a practice account that balance was handed to you, so the comfort came free and it came fast. Neither of those is true of the account you funded yourself.
The practical consequence is that a first live order placed at the demo habit tends to be the largest position a beginner has ever genuinely cared about. That is a bad combination with an unfamiliar feeling, and it produces the two classic first-week behaviours: closing a winner early out of relief, and refusing to close a loser at all.
Starting smaller is not caution for its own sake. It buys you a first month of readable data - decisions made calmly enough to be worth reviewing - which is the entire point of the first month. The rest of the cost picture lives on the cost page; this page is about whether you used it.
Reading a month of sizing out of the history
Line up the size written at entry against the size actually placed. Most weeks they agree, and the weeks they do not are the review. Two or three exceptions in a month is a person learning; a different size every week is a person deciding by feel and calculating afterwards.
Watch the direction of the drift. Sizes that creep up after a loss and shrink after a win are the clearest single signature of a first month going wrong, and they are visible in the history long before they are visible in the balance.
One useful weekly question, and only one: did the number change what I did, or did I change the number? Both are recorded. The journal holds the first version and the history holds the second, and comparing them takes about ten minutes.
A pre-order routine worth rehearsing before it counts
- Form the idea first and write it down, so the number is being applied to a decision rather than used to manufacture one.
- Run the calculator before the ticket is open, every time, including the trades that feel obvious.
- Write the resulting size into the journal at entry, next to the reason for the trade and the level that would prove it wrong.
- Place the first live order below the practice habit and leave it there for the whole first month, no matter how the first week goes.
- Each week, compare the written sizes with the placed ones and count the exceptions - the direction of the drift matters more than the size of it.
The calculator is the fast part. The habit of using its answer, and of being able to prove a week later that you did, is the part worth building.
What the number settles, and what only the first live month settles
| Question before the order | Settled by the calculator? | Settled by the record |
|---|---|---|
| What a position ties up | Yes, in seconds | Nothing further needed |
| Whether that size is comfortable | No | The first month of live entries |
| Whether you will use the answer | No | The written size against the placed size |
| Whether size drifts after a loss | No | The order history, read in date order |
| Whether the routine survives a busy week | No | The weeks with the fewest journal lines |
The first row is arithmetic and takes seconds. Every other row is behaviour and takes a month.
Sizing habits and how each one reads a week later
| Habit | How it appears in the history | What the journal line reveals |
|---|---|---|
| Number run before the order | Sizes repeating with few exceptions | A size written at entry that matches the fill |
| Number run after the order | Sizes clustering around round figures | The size line filled in later, or left blank |
| Size raised after a loss | A step up immediately following a losing close | The reason line mentions making it back |
| Size cut after a win | A step down following the best trades | The reason line mentions protecting something |
| Size copied from the practice habit | One size, unchanged since going live | No entry ever questions whether it still fits |
None of these rows require a formula to find. They require the size to have been written down before the order existed.