Use This Before the Order, Not After It — Cambodia

The calculator belongs at the planning stage, not the confirmation stage. Before an order is sent a beginner should already know what the position ties up in margin, what one pip is worth at the chosen size, and what the spread costs on entry. Filling those in afterwards is how people discover the trade was four times the size they meant.

An Exness trading calculator shows what a position really costs before you open it — the required margin, the value of one pip, the spread cost and overnight swaps — using spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness account. The Pro planner sizes a position from your account risk, plans by reward-to-risk (gross and net of costs), uses your own leverage, takes the stop and target in pips or price, and adds commission and overnight swap; switch to Simple for a quick margin, pip value, spread and swap read on a chosen volume.

InstrumentDirection

Account balanceCurrency

Leverage 1:Entry price

Stop-loss (pips)Take-profit (pips)

Nights heldCommission ($/lot)

Risk per trade (%)

Position size—

Reward : Risk—

—Risk at stop

—Reward at target

Margin required— —

—Pip value

—Spread cost

—Swap

—Net R:R (after costs)

—Total costs

—Break-even

—Notional

—Free margin

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Calculations use spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-09-06). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.

What does a beginner-sized trade look like in numbers?

On a USD account, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD is 1,000 units of the base currency — a position of about $1,161 at the measured mid rate of 1.16139. At 1:200 leverage it needs about $5.81 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 (2026-09-06). Converted to a local currency, the same amounts follow the current exchange rate, which changes through the day.

Questions a first-time trader asks

Which leverage figure is used in these examples?

Margin defaults to 1:200 and the leverage field is editable, so the figure can match the account's own setting. Margin equals position size divided by leverage — at 1:200, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD needs about $5.81. Figures are indicative.

Can the results be shown in a local currency?

The calculator works in USD, the deposit currency of the example. A result in a local currency is the USD amount converted at the current exchange rate, so it moves with that rate — the Currency Converter page gives an indicative mid-rate conversion.

When should a beginner run the calculator?

Before the order, as part of writing the trade down. Running it afterwards explains a mistake rather than preventing one.

Which output matters most at the start?

Pip value at the chosen lot size, because it converts the distance to the stop into money — the figure the plan actually limits.

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The three numbers to write down before an order

Margin, so it is clear what the account will have committed and how little room a second position would leave.

Pip value at the chosen lot size, because that is what turns the distance to the stop into an amount of money.

Spread cost, so the target can be compared against what the entry already cost.

How it fits the practice routine

During the demo run, use it on every trade even though nothing is at stake. The point is to make the check automatic before it becomes expensive.

Figures here are indicative and come from a measured account. The platform shows the exact margin on the ticket before the order is confirmed, and that is the number that governs.

Where this sits in a four-week practice run

In week one the calculator is used on trades that do not exist yet — sizing an imaginary position simply to see how the inputs move the outputs. That is the cheapest way to build an intuition for what leverage does and does not change.

From week two it becomes part of writing a trade down. The plan names the instrument, the entry and the stop; the calculator turns that into margin, pip value and cost; the numbers go into the journal before the order is sent.

By week four the check takes seconds and happens without being decided on. That is the whole point of running it while nothing is at stake.

The habit this is really building

A practice run is a rehearsal for behaviour, not for market opinions. Running the same check before every trade — margin, pip value, cost — while nothing is at stake is what makes it happen automatically later, when something is.

The journal records what came out of it. After a few dozen entries the pattern is visible: whether the size stayed consistent, whether the check was skipped on the trades that felt obvious, and whether those were the trades that went wrong.