FxPro Margin & Pip Calculator | FxPro Kenya
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 a prediction, and a prediction is worth as much as the check behind it — so the useful way to meet the margin, pip and profit tools is to run one against your own terminal and see whether the two agree. The formula they implement is short: margin is your position size divided by your leverage. At 1:200 that is 0.5% of the position, and the margin box further down this page turns that percentage into money as soon as you enter your own lot size and price; at 1:100 the same position needs twice as much. FxPro's free margin, pip, profit/loss and swap calculators work this out for you before you place a trade, on the website and inside the platforms. Do the comparison once with a small demo order, keep both numbers side by side, and from then on you know exactly how far the tool can be trusted and where the small differences come from.
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 | 46.6 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 54 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 45 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 64.5 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.64 | 0.01 | 500 | 108.7 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 11245.2 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 →Checking the margin number with one small order
Set the check up before you look at the answer. Decide the instrument, the lot size and the leverage, run them through the margin calculator, and write the result down. Only then open the same three inputs on a demo order and read what the terminal requires. A prediction written after the fact is not a prediction.
For a one-lot EUR/USD position at 1:200 the number to beat is half a percent of the position value, and the margin box on this page prints it for the price you are actually trading at. At 1:100 it doubles, and that doubling is the quickest way to confirm you are looking at the field you think you are: change nothing but the leverage and watch the requirement move in step.
A difference of a few dollars means the price moved between your readings. A difference by a factor means one of the three inputs is not what you assumed — most often the leverage attached to the account rather than the one typed into the tool.
Confirming what a point is worth
Pip value is the input everyone copies from a table and nobody tests, and it is the one that quietly rewrites every position-sizing decision built on top of it. The test costs one demo position and a little waiting: profit before, profit after a known move, divide.
The contract table on this page publishes the same quantity read straight from the instrument's specification, one row per instrument. Read down the tick value column and the entries do not agree with each other: a point is worth one thing on a pair quoted in your account currency and something else on a pair that is not. That is why a position-size habit learned on EUR/USD is the wrong size on USD/JPY.
Run the test once per quote currency and keep the answers. Contract sizes and tick values change rarely, so this is a check with a long shelf life — unlike the spread, which needs re-reading every session, and the swap, which needs re-reading every night you hold.
Which inputs need re-checking and which do not
Three of the inputs are stable and can be measured once: the contract size, the lot step and the tick value, all read from the instrument's specification. On the majors above that is 100,000 units per lot and a 0.01-lot step, with the point values already listed; on gold the contract is a different size again, which is the single most common reason a metals calculation comes out wrong.
Two of them are not stable. The price moves while you read it, and the leverage belongs to the account rather than to the instrument. Re-take those on the day and reuse the rest.
The account risk levels sit in the same category as leverage. Margin call and stop-out are printed in the note under the contract table, read from what the Raw+ account showed at the time, and both are worth confirming in your own terminal — those two levels decide the point at which every other calculation on this page stops being theoretical.