Margin Calculator, FxPro Pakistan — 100 Ounces, Not 100,000 Units
FxPro provides trading calculators so you can work out margin, pip value and potential profit or loss before placing a trade.
Open FxPro Account →At FxPro the margin you need is your position size divided by your leverage. At 1:200 that is 0.5% of the position — about $540 for a one-lot EUR/USD trade (roughly $108,000 notional); at 1:100 it is about $1,080. The formula survives the move to metals, but the inputs do not. A gold lot is 100 troy ounces rather than 100,000 units, so its position value is the metal price multiplied by a hundred: a four-figure quote becomes a six-figure position, and the margin behind one lot of metal is several times the margin behind one lot of a major. FxPro's free margin, pip, profit/loss and swap calculators work this out before you place a trade, inside the platforms, and each of them reads the instrument's own contract specification. Use them with the live spread and swap to estimate the full cost and risk of a position. Leverage and margin cut both ways — a smaller margin controls a larger position and a bigger potential loss.
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 | 53.4 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 65 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 45.1 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 56 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.63 | 0.01 | 500 | 155.1 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 9410.9 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 →Swap one input and the calculator works for metals
Margin is position value divided by leverage on every instrument FxPro lists; the only thing that changes between a currency pair and a metal is how position value is built. On a major it is lots multiplied by 100,000 and by the price. On gold it is lots multiplied by 100 and by the price, because the contract is 100 troy ounces. Required margin, free margin and the distance to a stop-out all follow from that one substitution.
The same substitution fixes profit and loss. One point of movement on gold is a cent an ounce, so the result is points moved multiplied by a dollar and by the lot count. On EUR/USD the constant is $10 for each pip, because a pip there is ten points of a five-decimal quote across 100,000 units. Two instruments, one formula, two different constants.
Three numbers to change before sizing a metal trade
Contract size comes first: 100 troy ounces, not 100,000 units, which is what turns a four-figure quote into a six-figure position. Decimals come second: gold is quoted to two places, so the point you count in the platform is a cent an ounce. Minimum size comes third: 0.01 lot is a single ounce, which makes fine sizing easier on a metal than the lot count suggests.
With those three in place the rest of the plan carries over intact. The measured average daily range on the table above says how far the instrument usually travels in its own points, the measured spread and commission say what the entry costs, and the overnight figures on our swap rates page say what each night adds.
Why the margin looks larger on gold
A lot of gold and a lot of EUR/USD share a name and nothing else. At 1:200 both require half a percent of the position, but the positions are not the same size: a hundred ounces of a four-figure metal is worth several times what 100,000 units of a euro-dollar position is worth. The margin difference is not a metal-specific rule, only the contract size showing through.
That makes lot counts untransferable between the two. If your plan is denominated in cash, decide the cash exposure first and let the lot count fall out of the contract size — one lot on a metal commits several times the capital of the same lot count on a pair, and the distance to a stop-out moves in the same ratio.