What is The Lot ?
If you want to buy one of the euro against the dollar in the exchange rate of 1.4480 and regardless of the (spread) and after the purchase to move the pair to 1.4481
Here we ask what is your winnings?!
The answer is only $ 0.0001.
Because 1.4481 - 1.4480 = 0.0001 $ is not it!!
You must know something very important,
That the profession trading in the spot currency exchange means trading currencies piece or croaker Lot, and as in our previous example to buy or sell 1 of the currency against the currency will not benefit any profit.
So you trade to purchase or sell the quantities or sizes or cut or Lott to enlarge the size of the profits.
There are 3 sizes of contracts appear primarily ...
Standard size lot is $ 100,000
And mini-sized lot is $ 10,000
And the micro size of the lot is $ 1,000
You probably are wondering now how the small investor to trade in large quantities of money once to deposit small amounts.
Here we are going to remind you the definition of "leverage"
Leverage Leverage
Well .. Now you want to know how to be big winnings!!
Hana was the turn of purchasing leverage you will not buy just 1 euro against the dollar because that would not be profitable.
If leverage is, power Pettmkink control a large amount of money, "even if the owner of a small head with a brokerage firm" means trading a portion of your capital and borrow the rest to help you in the trade. "
Definition Margin (Margin) Margin
Naturally brokerage firm will ask you to book a minimum amount of your account
balance is known as margin security deal, and when you open your account at a brokerage firm you will have the ability to trade strongly lifting according to the margin required of you for each lot intended trading in it, and vary the lift between brokerage firms of 1: 50 to 1: 400
If the other meaning of the leverage it, the ratio of the amount of size to buy or sell used in any transaction, to deposit the required security margin.
For example brokerage firm will help you buy a pair coin size Lott $ 100,000 and ask you to deposit only $ 1000 Kmarzin secure the deal, prove good faith response facilities without damage to the brokerage firm on the money funded from the bank, face competition
mediation book this deposit until the transaction but does not remain with necessarily.
If leverage advertised in this example is 1: 100
Means deposit 1000 $ × 100 = 100.000 investor capital.
And now to the calculations:
Now we're going to give you some examples calculations to be able to understand what is already ...
First a calculation to illustrate croaker ..
For example, if the U.S. dollar is the main currency first account will be as follows:
USD / JPY exchange rate of 119.90
(0.01 / 119.80) × Lott b $ 100,000 = 8.34 $ Per Point
USD / CHF exchange rate of 1.4555
(0.0001 / 1.4555) × Lott b $ 100,000 = 6.87 $ Per Point
For example, if the U.S. dollar is not the currency first hand the north, will be slightly different account:
EUR / USD exchange rate of 1.3138
How do you calculate value Alboynt to rate the size of the piece, will be as follows:
One point is equal to $ 10 per Point in the price movement.
Thus calculated but be aware that the value of Alboynt vary from brokerage firm to another relative to the size offered by croaker, but in any case all
these accounts be equipped with an automated fashion.
A calculation to illustrate Leverage and Margin
Second example of the margin requirement and leverage
To open the package in a standard account K100 b $ 100,000
You may be asked margin by 1% or $ 1,000 to open a one lot
If leverage in Forex made you trade $ 100,000 with only 1% only Kmarzin required if leverage ratio is 1: 100
Means that the deposit of 1000 $ × 100 = 100.000 investor capital.
To open the package in a mini account K10 b $ 10,000
You may be asked margin by 0.50% or $ 50 to open a one lot
If leverage in Forex made you trade $ 10,000 with only 0.50% only Kmarzin required as leverage ratio is 1: 200
Means that the deposit of 50 $ × 200 = 10.000 investor capital
To calculate the number of transactions allowed you to compare the amount of your balance with the brokerage firm rule says:
Total your brokerage account ÷ Margin = the number of transactions allowed
For example, if your balance at brokerage firm $ 1,000 in a mini account
And prompted margin 0.50% or $ 50 margin per deal to buy a lot to $ 10,000
If you have a chance to make all trades 20 to 50 $ Kmarzin.
$ 1,000 account balance ÷ 50 $ margin = 20 deal allowed
Another example
If you have a balance of $ 5,000 in a standard account that every $ 1,000 you have, you can trade in one lot to $ 100,000 that this will allow you to use a crane to reach stores balance to $ 500,000 as a total lifting power.
Margin and Leverage
If the margin is combined with leverage this group may be fatal if used in a bad way!!
The Forex Trading on Margin increase your purchasing power if you had $ 5,000 in a margin account that allows you to strongly raise up to 100:1 Here you can buy up to $ 500,000 of currency because you only have to deposit 1% margin is required as a deposit for the deal.
However purchasing power larger can increase your ROI college with less valuable critique, but be careful because the margin trading may increase the losses in the absence of a money management intact, we notify you later the importance of this lesson is detail in the management department money to be able to trade safe manner and use the most appropriate leverage and appropriate lot size for each transaction,
according to the size of the head of the owner.
Risk Warning: holds foreign exchange on margin a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors, and could result in high amount of leverage to backfire against you as well as it can lead to good results for you, so before Taking the decision to invest in foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite, The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you can not afford to lose , you should be aware of all the risks associated with foreign exchange trading,
and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts