Margin Calculator

This is how to use the margin calculator

• Select your account's base currency
• Choose the currency paid to trade
• Select the leverage
• Enter the number of lots to trade

Then click calculate.

Here is an example how currency conversion works

• The account base currency is denominated in USD
• EURUSD is chosen to trade
• The minimum leverage for EURUSD is 1% or 1:100
• 1 lot is to be traded

The margin requirement will be calculated as; EUR 100,000 x (the current rate of exchange) = The USD equivalent. The USD equivalent then becomes 116,010 1% of $116,010 is equal to $1,160.10. Therefore the margin requirement to trade 1 lot will be $1,160.10.

The margin is allocated from your available balance to open a trade and this is the amount requirement to maintain the trade.

Changing the currency pair to trade or the accounts base currency will involve calculating the margin requirement based on the current rates of exchange between these currency pairs.

For example, if the accounts base currency is denominated in GBP. Then $1,160.10 would have to be converted to the GBP equivalent, at the current GBPUSD rate of exchange, to calculate the margin requirement.