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Calculate Trades With Precision Before You Invest

Plan positions, estimate margins, and calculate trade requirements with powerful tools designed for smarter trading decisions.

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Enter your trade details

Adjust the values and click Calculate
to see the required margin and costs.

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Stay on Top of Your Margin

Maintaining the required margin is essential. If your equity drops below 15% of the required margin, some or all open positions may be automatically closed to limit further losses—this is known as a Stop Out.

You’ll receive a margin call alert when your equity falls to 25% of the total margin. This gives you time to deposit more funds or close positions manually.

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How to Calculate Margin
Using the Calculator

To find the required margin for a planned trade, choose your preferred platform MetaTrader 5.

Next, enter the currency pair, account currency, leverage, and trade volume.

Click Calculate and the calculator will automatically compute the margin based on the selected platform's specifications. The result shows the exact amount of funds needed to open your position with the chosen leverage.

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You can also use the 1Digit Market Forex margin calculator to adjust your leverage.

Choose the currency pair, your account's currency, leverage level, and trade volume. Finally, press the Calculate button. The margin will be calculated automatically using the specifications of the chosen trading platform. This number shows how much funds you need to open your order with the current leverage. If the calculated margin size for an order is larger than your available funds, try selecting a higher leverage ratio.

Let us say you want to buy a standard lot of EURUSD using 1:100 leverage and have 600 USD in your account. According to the calculator, you need 1,064.54 USD to place the order. If you change your leverage to 1:200, the margin will be 532.27 USD.

You can use the calculator to choose the optimal lot size as well. Before placing an order, compare your available equity to the required margin and select your order size accordingly.

For instance, you want to buy 10 lots of EURUSD with 1:500 leverage and have 1,500 USD in your account. According to the calculator, you need 2,141.88 USD to do that.

A pip is the smallest unit of price change in Forex. Its meaning varies for different trading instruments:

  • for 5-digit currency pairs—the 4th decimal (0.0001)
  • for 3-digit currency pairs and XAUUSD—the 2nd decimal (0.01)
  • for XAUUSD, XBRUSD, XTIUSD—the 1st decimal (0.1)
  • for indices (except JPN225)—the 1st decimal (0.1)

Let us say you want to buy a standard lot of EURUSD, and the price is currently at 1.0762. The calculated pip value of this trade is 10 USD.