How to use trading calculator ?
- Choose your account base currency from the dropdown menu
- Add your ‘leverage’ ratio from the dropdown menu
- Choose your trading `instrument’ from the dropdown menu.
- Give your `lot’ size
- Now you can view your indicative results for this trade.
- To make a new calculation, simply change one of the trade parameters.
Glossary
Buy / Sell
By trading Forex & CFDs you can participate on both sides of the markets rising and falling quotes. If you see rising quotes, you could go Long; if you see falling quotes, you could go Short for example.
Commission
With our live accounts, you don`t pay trading commissions on all instruments. Instead, the broker's compensation is inside our spread.
Contract size
Equivalent to the traded amount on the Forex or CFD market, which is calculated as a standard lot size multiplied with lot amount. The Forex standard lot size represents 100,000 units of the base currency. For CFDs and other instruments see details in the contract specification.
Instrument
Also referred to as "Symbol". The trading asset which you Buy or Sell.
Leverage
The ratio of position`s notional value to the amount of margin required for opening a position (e.g. leverage 1:500 means that EUR 100,000 contract requires as low as 200 EUR margin). You can change your personal leverage by sending request to our support.
Lot
Usual volume term in the Forex trading world (traders talk about a number of"lots" in Forex and usually a number"contracts" with CFDs).
- 1.00 refers to 1 standard lot or 100,000 units of the base currency.
- 0.10 refers to 1 mini lot or 10,000 units of the base currency.
- 0.01 refers to 1 micro lot or 1,000 units of the base currency.
Margin
This is how much capital (margin) is needed in order to open and maintain your position.
Pip value
Pip stands for percentage in points and it is the most comment increment of currencies. For Forex instruments quoted to the 5th decimal point (e.g. GBPUSD – 1.32451) 1 pip is equal to a price increment of 0.00010; for Forex instruments quoted to the 3rd place following the decimal point (e.g. USDJPY – 101.522) 1 pip is equal to a price increment of 0.010. For indices 1 pip is equal to a price increment of 1.0, which is also called an Index Point. For other instruments 1 pip is equal to Tick Size.
Profit
Your profit or loss (marked with -) for a trading scenario you calculated.
Tick
The smallest quote change for an instrument, for example 0,00001 for EUR/USD rolling Forex and 0,1 points for DAX30 index CFD.
Time
Swap is charged within the interval between 23:59:30 to 23:59:59 at the time of trading server.
CP
"Close price" for the certain session is involved in the SWAP calculation for stocks.
Disclaimer
Calculation`s made in the trading calculator are for informational purposes only. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, you should not rely upon it as being complete or up to date. Furthermore this information may be subject to change at any time.