Exness Trading Calculator — the Position and the Account Line (Tanzania)

Calculations use spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-08-12). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.

How much is 0.01 lot on EUR/USD?

On a USD account, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD is 1,000 units of the base currency — a position of about $1,154 at the measured mid rate of 1.15380. At 1:200 leverage it needs about $5.77 of margin, one pip is worth about $0.10, and crossing the measured 0.8-pip spread costs about $0.08.

Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-08-12). Held in another account currency the same amounts follow the current exchange rate, while equity, free margin and margin level keep moving with the open result.

Balance, equity, used margin, free margin: four lines, one account

Balance is the settled figure. It changes when a position is closed and when funds move, and it does not move while a trade is running. Equity is balance plus the profit or loss of everything currently open, so it moves tick by tick, and the gap between the two lines is the whole unrealised result of the account at that moment.

Opening a position does not spend money, it reserves it. The required margin the calculator shows is taken out of free margin and shown as used margin, and it is released when the position is closed. Free margin is equity minus used margin rather than balance minus used margin, which is why an open loss shrinks the room for a second trade even though the balance has not changed by a cent.

Margin level in percent, and the distance to an automatic close

Margin level is equity divided by used margin, written as a percentage. With $2,000 of equity against $250 of used margin it reads 800%; the same position carried on $500 of equity reads 200%. The number falls as an open loss grows and as further positions are added, and it rises when price moves in favour or when something is closed.

Two thresholds sit on that scale: the level at which the platform starts warning that free margin has run low, and the level at which it begins closing open positions by itself. Both belong to the account type and are published in the account conditions, not in any calculator. The useful habit is to read the calculator result as the margin level the account would open at, then ask how far price can travel against the trade before that level is reached.

What a second position does to the same account

Margin is additive across open positions while equity is shared by all of them. A second trade adds its own required margin to the used-margin line, which lowers free margin and lowers margin level even when the first trade is in profit. Sizing the second trade as if the account were empty is how a position that looked comfortable in the calculator turns into an account with almost no room left.

Two positions on instruments that tend to move together sharpen this: their results swing in the same direction, so equity moves by the sum rather than by the average, while used margin is the sum in every case. Running the calculator twice and adding the two required margin figures gives the honest starting point.

Reading the same position in the terminal

Every figure the calculator produces has a counterpart on the platform. Required margin appears in the order window before a trade is confirmed and on the account line afterwards; contract size, tick value, the number of digits and the swap charge live in the instrument specification; the spread is simply the distance between the two prices on the quote line. Comparing the two sets is the quickest way to catch a mistyped volume or a leverage setting that is not what was assumed.

Where they disagree the reason is usually one of three: the volume was entered in units rather than in lots, the leverage typed into the calculator is not the leverage on the account, or the instrument chosen is a near neighbour of the one actually traded. The specification window settles all three without arithmetic.

Which outputs are fixed at opening and which keep moving

Three of the outputs are settled the moment a position opens and three are not. Position size and required margin are fixed by the volume, the price and the leverage; the spread cost is paid once on entry. Pip value keeps moving whenever the profit currency is not the account currency, swap accrues for every night the position is carried, and equity — and with it free margin and margin level — moves continuously.

A position carried across a non-trading break inherits both effects: swap keeps accruing on the schedule of the instrument, and the first price after the break can sit some distance from the last one, so a margin level that looked comfortable before the break is not necessarily the margin level after it.

Reading a planned position against the account

1. Note the equity and the used margin already showing on the platform, not the balance.
2. Enter the instrument, the volume and the account leverage in the calculator above.
3. Add the required margin it returns to the used margin already in place.
4. Subtract that total from equity: the remainder is the free margin the account would keep.
5. Divide equity by the new used margin to get the margin level the account would open at.
6. Work out how far price can move against the position before that level meets the closing threshold of the account type, and check that the stop sits inside that distance.

The calculator supplies required margin and pip value; the account line supplies equity, used margin and the levels. Figures are indicative.

One position, and what it leaves behind on a $2,000 account

Arithmetic only, taken at the moment of opening and before the spread is crossed. An example, not a quote.

The same account as the open loss grows

Used margin does not move with the loss; equity, free margin and margin level all do. The level at which a platform warns and the level at which it closes positions are set by the account type.

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