FxPro Margin & Pip Calculator — FxPro Thailand
FxPro provides trading calculators so you can work out margin, pip value and potential profit or loss before placing a trade.
Open FxPro Account →Margin is position size divided by leverage, and at FxPro leverage runs up to 1:200 depending on the instrument and the account. A broker change does not alter that formula; it alters everything you feed into it. A standard lot of an FX major is 100,000 units and a lot of gold is 100 ounces, sizes step in 0.01 from a 0.01 minimum up to a 500-lot ceiling, and the leverage you are permitted here may not be the one you were used to. This matters because hardly anyone carries a formula between brokers. What people carry is rules of thumb, and a rule of thumb is a calculation somebody already performed on somebody else's numbers. Before the first order, put each rule you brought with you through the calculator on this page and look at what it becomes. The ones that land roughly where you expected were arithmetic. The ones that surprise you were memory, and memory is the part of a method that does not survive a move.
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 | 40.5 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 52.4 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 40.7 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 52.6 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.63 | 0.01 | 500 | 84 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 9718 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 →Which of your rules are arithmetic and which are memory
Ask a trader what their sizing rule is and you get a sentence: never more than two lots, never more than a third of the account committed, keep the rest free. Every one of those sentences is a calculation frozen at the moment it was first performed, on one broker's contract sizes and one broker's leverage. Carry it here unchanged and the sentence stays exactly the same while the quantity behind it quietly does not.
The separation is easy to make and hardly anyone makes it. A rule stated in lots, in a share of the balance or in a leverage figure is arithmetic: run it through the calculator with this account's inputs and it converts cleanly. A rule stated as a feeling, that this size is comfortable and that one is too large, is memory of a particular balance and a particular instrument, and it does not convert at all. It has to be earned again here, and it will be, across a first month.
Run your last positions through it before you run your next one
The quickest way to find the rules that did not survive the move is to look backwards instead of forwards. Take the handful of positions you genuinely held at the previous broker, not your best ones but your typical ones, and re-enter each of them here: same instrument, same lot count, this account's leverage. The calculator will say what each of them would commit on this account.
What you are looking for is surprise. A figure that lands roughly where you expected confirms that the rule behind it really was arithmetic and travels intact. A figure that lands somewhere you did not expect has just identified a rule you never actually computed, only recited, and that is the one worth fixing before it reaches a live order rather than afterwards. The whole exercise takes a quiet half hour and it happens exactly once.
Finer sizing is a capability, not an instruction
A move often brings extra resolution with it. If your previous account started at a larger minimum, the 0.01-lot floor and the 0.01 step here make every size in between available for the first time, and the natural reaction is to start using the new precision immediately. That is the most common way a working method gets quietly edited in its first fortnight: nothing was actually decided, the granularity changed and the sizes followed it.
The disciplined version is to keep the sizing you arrived with for a first month, even where finer steps are now permitted, so that the record you build here stays comparable with the method you brought. The extra resolution is not going anywhere. Once there is a month of results produced by the same rule you were using before, you have a baseline, and any change made after that is a change you can actually read.
Leverage is a permission, not a plan
The leverage an account grants describes the largest position it will let you open, and nothing whatsoever about the one your method needs. Those are different questions and they get confused most often at exactly this moment, when a trader meets a cap that differs from the one they are used to. A higher figure than before reads as an invitation; a lower one reads as an obstacle. Neither reading has anything to do with the size the method was built around.
The check is to run your own intended position through the calculator and look at what it commits, then ask whether the remaining balance can sit through an ordinary move on that instrument without the question becoming urgent. That is a sizing decision made against your own balance, and it lands in the same place whether the cap above it is generous or tight. A cap only becomes relevant when your method is already pressed against it, and for most traders arriving from somewhere else it never is.
Translating a carried rule into this account
| Rule you arrived with | Is it arithmetic? | What settles it here |
|---|---|---|
| Never more than a set number of lots in one position | Yes | The contract size and the leverage behind those lots - recompute it, do not re-use it |
| Keep a fixed share of the balance uncommitted | Yes | The margin the calculator returns for the size you intend |
| A protective distance measured in pips | No - it described one instrument's behaviour | Observed again here, instrument by instrument |
| This size feels about right | No - it was learned against another balance | A first month of results on this account |
| Round sizes only, because the old platform insisted | No longer true | A 0.01 minimum and a 0.01 step, spent deliberately rather than by reflex |
Contract sizes, lot steps and the leverage available are structural. What each of them turns into for your own position is what the calculator above is for.