Margin Calculator Inputs on a Small Screen · FxPro Australia
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 — at 1:200 that is 0.5% of the position, at 1:100 it is 1% — and the arithmetic is the easy part. Collecting the inputs on a phone is what takes the time. Three of them are already on screen: the live price, the volume you are about to send and the leverage on the account. The others are elsewhere. Contract size and the minimum lot of 0.01 are in the instrument specification, free margin and margin level are folded into the account summary line instead of a row of columns, and the required margin itself is only produced by the order screen once the volume is set, which is the last step rather than the first. The calculator below asks for those inputs in one place, and the measured table under it lists the contract sizes and lot limits read from FxPro's own MT5 Raw+ feed.
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 | 45.5 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 53.9 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 42.8 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 65.6 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.65 | 0.01 | 500 | 141.2 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 10838.1 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 inputs your phone puts in front of you
Sort the inputs of a margin calculation by how far they sit from your thumb and a pattern appears. On screen already: price, volume, leverage. One tap away, in the instrument specification: contract size, the minimum lot and the lot ceiling. Not on a phone in any convenient form: the readings a desktop terminal keeps in permanent columns, such as the margin each individual position is consuming.
None of this changes the answer — margin is still size divided by leverage — but it does change the order in which a phone lets you find it out. The calculation is easiest before the order screen and hardest inside it, which is the reverse of where most people first try to do it.
The number the order screen shows last
Required margin is derived, so a platform can only show it after you have supplied the volume. On a desktop that is a small inconvenience, because the free margin column stays in view the whole time. On a phone the account summary is a single line above the positions, and it updates after the fact instead of warning you before it.
Doing the arithmetic first removes the dependency. Position value is contract size times volume times price, required margin is that divided by leverage, and each is one line. The measured table on this page carries the contract sizes and lot limits; the spreads and costs page carries what the round turn itself costs.
What the phone folds into one line
A desktop terminal treats margin as a set of readings — margin in use, free margin, margin level — and gives each of them a column that never leaves the screen. A phone folds the same three into one summary line, and per-position margin usually disappears entirely: you see the account total, not which trade is responsible for it.
Two things follow. Size positions from a calculation rather than from whatever the account line reads at that moment, and remember that the line moves overnight on its own: every rollover charged against an open position changes equity, and with it margin level, without a single order being sent. What that costs per instrument is on our swap rates page.