Exness Margin Calculator — what the result leaves out — Bahrain
A margin figure is the entry ticket and nothing more. Free margin, margin level and the point at which a position would be closed for you are shown nowhere on this page, and each of them answers a different question.
Open Exness Account →A margin figure answers how much is held, and nothing else. Whether the account can carry the position is answered by free margin; how close the account is to a forced close is answered by margin level, a percentage rather than an amount; and the point at which the platform would step in is not a printable figure at all, because it moves with equity on every tick. None of the three appear on this page, and all three appear on the account line of the trading window.
Measured contract values for your calculations
Read live from Exness’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 | 200 | 36.9 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 200 | 43.8 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 200 | 34.4 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 200 | 51.2 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.65 | 0.01 | 300 | 135.7 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 60%, stop-out at 0% — confirm the live values in your terminal.
Four numbers, and only one of them is on this page
- Required margin answers a single question: how much of the account is held while the position stays open.
- Free margin answers whether another position can be opened at all, and it is what the order window checks.
- Margin level, a percentage rather than an amount, is the figure the platform itself watches.
- The point at which a position would be closed for you is not a printable price: it moves with equity on every tick.
- The three missing numbers are live values and are read on the account line of the trading window.
Which number answers which question
| The question being asked | The number that answers it | Where that number is read |
|---|---|---|
| How much does this position hold? | Required margin | This page, and the order window before confirming |
| Can another position be opened? | Free margin | The account line of the trading window |
| How close is the account to trouble? | Margin level, as a percentage | The account line, recalculated on every tick |
| At what price would it end? | No single figure exists | The platform reports a level, not a price |
Where the missing three are read
All three sit on one line of the trading window and are recalculated continuously: equity, the margin already held by open positions, what is left of it, and the ratio between the first two. A form cannot show any of them, because a form knows only the position being planned and nothing about the account that would carry it.
That is the division of labour worth remembering. A calculation page answers a question about one hypothetical position. The account line answers a question about the account as a whole, with every open position and every floating result already folded into the figure.
Why no page can print the closing point
The point at which a platform steps in is expressed against held margin as a percentage, not as a price on a chart. Turning that percentage into a price means fixing everything else first: the size of every open position, the floating result of each one, and the balance at that exact moment. Change any of them and the price changes with them.
This is why the honest form of the answer is a level to watch rather than a number to write down. A percentage stays correct while positions are added and closed; a price copied into a notebook stops being true the moment the account changes.
What a planning figure is still good for
None of this makes the margin figure useless. It is the only one of the four that can be known before an account exists, which makes it the right number for comparing sizes, for deciding whether an idea fits at all, and for sanity-checking an order ticket before confirming it.
The mistake is treating it as an affordability test. Affordability is a property of the account, not of the position, and the account has its own line in the window that reports it directly.
Reading the account line instead of the form
- Open the trading window and find the account summary under the terminal tabs.
- Read equity first: it is the balance with every floating result already applied.
- Read the held margin next: that is the part of equity the open positions are keeping aside.
- Read free margin: the difference between the two, and the figure that limits the next order.
- Read the level as a percentage and treat that, rather than any amount, as the number worth watching.
The form on this page and the account line answer different questions, and neither replaces the other.
Frequently asked questions
Does the margin figure tell me whether I can afford the position?
What is free margin and where is it shown?
Why is margin level a percentage instead of an amount?
Can this page show the price at which a position would be closed?
Why do the figures here and in the platform differ?
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