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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.

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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:

InstrumentContract sizeTick value (USD)Min lotMax lotAvg daily range
EUR/USD100,000$1.000.0120036.9 pips
GBP/USD100,000$1.000.0120043.8 pips
AUD/USD100,000$1.000.0120034.4 pips
USD/CAD100,000$0.720.0120051.2 pips
USD/JPY100,000$0.650.01300135.7 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

Which number answers which question

The question being askedThe number that answers itWhere that number is read
How much does this position hold?Required marginThis page, and the order window before confirming
Can another position be opened?Free marginThe account line of the trading window
How close is the account to trouble?Margin level, as a percentageThe account line, recalculated on every tick
At what price would it end?No single figure existsThe 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

  1. Open the trading window and find the account summary under the terminal tabs.
  2. Read equity first: it is the balance with every floating result already applied.
  3. Read the held margin next: that is the part of equity the open positions are keeping aside.
  4. Read free margin: the difference between the two, and the figure that limits the next order.
  5. 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?
No. It tells you how much would be held. Whether the account can carry it is free margin, which is read on the account line of the trading window.
What is free margin and where is it shown?
It is equity minus the margin already held by open positions, and it appears on the account summary line inside the trading platform, not on a calculation page.
Why is margin level a percentage instead of an amount?
Because it compares two amounts rather than reporting one. Expressed as a ratio it stays meaningful whatever the account size, which is why the platform watches it rather than a sum.
Can this page show the price at which a position would be closed?
No page can. That point is defined against held margin as a percentage, and turning it into a price depends on every open position and the balance at that moment.
Why do the figures here and in the platform differ?
A form calculates one planned position from the values typed into it. The platform calculates the whole account from live prices, so the two agree only when the account holds nothing else.

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