Margin Is Reserved, Not Spent: Calculator Limits · FxPro Brazil
FxPro provides trading calculators so you can work out margin, pip value and potential profit or loss before placing a trade.
Open FxPro Account →Margin is not a charge. It is the slice of your balance that a position reserves while it is open, and it comes back when the position closes. At FxPro the requirement is position size divided by leverage: at 1:200 that is 0.5% of the position - about $540 on a one-lot EUR/USD trade of roughly $108,000 notional - and about $1,080 at 1:100. FxPro's free margin, pip, profit/loss and swap calculators work this out before you place a trade, inside the platforms. Every one of them is fed by the trade: instrument, size, leverage. That is also where their reach stops, because the charges billed to the account rather than to a trade have no trade to be calculated from - an inactivity fee after six months of no activity, and whatever the institution at the far end takes when money moves. A calculator answers whether a position fits and what it costs to run; it does not answer what the account costs to keep. Leverage cuts both ways: a smaller margin controls a larger position and a bigger potential loss.
Measured contract values for your calculations
Read live from FxPro’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 | 500 | 53.4 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 65 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 45.1 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 56 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.63 | 0.01 | 500 | 155.1 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 9410.9 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 10%, stop-out at 0% — confirm the live values in your terminal.
Work out your margin
Margin = position size ÷ leverage. Approximate, for USD-quoted forex pairs (1 standard lot = 100,000 units); margin is shown in USD and varies with the live price. Your exact margin appears in your FxPro platform.
FxPro trading calculators
- Margin calculator — how much margin a position requires
- Pip calculator — the value of a pip in your account currency
- Profit/loss and swap calculators for trade planning
- Available inside the FxPro platforms
Plan before you trade
Use the calculators alongside our spreads and swap rates pages to estimate your total trading costs.
Open FxPro Account →Reserved, not spent
The clearest line on this page is the one between capital and cost. Margin is capital: it is reserved while the position is open and returned when it closes, and at 1:200 it comes to 0.5% of the position size. Nothing about it is a payment.
Confusing the two runs in either direction. Treating reserved capital as a cost makes a plan look far more expensive than it is. Treating it as free capital makes the balance look larger than it is, because the reserved part cannot back anything else at the same time.
So the output of this page is a capacity figure, not a bill. It says how much of the balance a given size takes out of circulation, and how much is left to work with.
The edge of what a calculator can answer
A calculator is exact within its inputs and silent outside them. Give it an instrument, a size and a leverage setting and it will return the capital reserved, the value of a point and the entry price of the deal - all of it derived from the same three numbers.
No calculator asks whether the account will sit unused next quarter, or what the institution at the far end takes to move money, because neither question has a trade in it. Those are facts about an account, and no combination of instrument, size and leverage reaches them.
That is worth stating plainly, because a plan built purely from calculator output looks complete and is not. The items it cannot see are catalogued on our spreads and costs page.
Sizing the part that is not a trade
Two figures belong next to the calculator output before anything is funded. The first is the minimum to start, $100. The second is how long the account is likely to sit unused, because after six months of no activity an inactivity fee applies - and that is charged whether or not the calculator was ever opened.
A payout follows the same logic. FxPro covers deposit transfer fees and charges no withdrawal fee on most methods, and money returns along the route it arrived on; a payout on an account that has not traded may still carry a small charge from the provider at the other end.
None of that changes the arithmetic above. It changes what the arithmetic is for: the calculator sizes a position, and the perimeter list says what the account costs during the stretches when no position is open at all.
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Margin arithmetic on currency pairs behaves unlike the equity margin many readers first met, because the underlying market trades around the clock and quotes in pairs. Before relying on a calculator, look at how Brazilian authorities frame financial oversight and compare it with how the currency market itself operates.