FxPro Margin & Pip Calculator | Kenya 2026
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 the one number on this money path that is not a charge. It is part of your own balance set aside while a position is open, released in full when the position closes, and paid to nobody. At leverage of 1:200 it is 0.5% of the position — about $540 of a roughly $108,000 EUR/USD lot — and at 1:100 about $1,080. What it does decide is what is left over: the free margin that absorbs a losing move, and the funds you could withdraw today. The charges that genuinely leave the account are the spread, the commission on raw-pricing accounts, and the overnight swap.
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 | 45.5 pips |
| GBP/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 53.9 pips |
| AUD/USD | 100,000 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 42.8 pips |
| USD/CAD | 100,000 | $0.72 | 0.01 | 500 | 65.6 pips |
| USD/JPY | 100,000 | $0.65 | 0.01 | 500 | 141.2 pips |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 100 | $1.00 | 0.01 | 500 | 10838.1 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 →Locked is not spent
Every other page on this site deals with money that leaves. Margin does not leave: it moves from free to used inside the same account and comes back when you close. Reading it as a cost leads to the wrong decision, because you start comparing it with the spread and the commission, which are gone the moment they are taken.
The comparison that matters is with your balance. Used margin plus any floating loss is what sets free margin, and free margin is the room the account has to be wrong before anything is forced. That is why the leverage figure in a calculator is really a question about room rather than about size: at 1:200 a one-lot EUR/USD trade reserves about $540 and at 1:100 about $1,080, and the difference is not a fee — it is how much of your balance stays available.
It also decides what you can take out. Funds committed as margin are not withdrawable while the position is open, so an account with an open trade and a payout request is two claims on the same money. On the money path, that makes position size a withdrawal decision as well as a risk decision.
The two levels where the account stops asking
Two thresholds sit under every calculation. On the measured Raw+ account the margin call level is 10% and the stop-out level is 0%, meaning the account warns and then closes positions on its own when the margin level falls that far. Neither is a charge, but both turn a floating loss into a realised one, which is the point at which money genuinely leaves the balance.
The arithmetic is worth doing in the calm. Work out the margin your intended size reserves, subtract it from the balance, and ask how large a move against you the remainder can absorb. If the answer is smaller than the instrument's ordinary daily range, the size is too big for the account, whatever the available leverage allows.
The measured contract table above supplies the inputs: contract size, tick value and average daily range per instrument. Combine them with the entry costs on spreads and the nightly cost on swap rates, and you have the full claim on a balance funded from $100.
Sizing a position against the balance you actually funded
- Start from the balance in the trading account, not from the amount sitting in the FxPro Wallet.
- Choose the position size and read the margin it reserves: position size divided by leverage, which is 0.5% of the notional at 1:200.
- Subtract that from the balance. What remains is the free margin that has to absorb the trade going against you.
- Compare the remainder with the instrument's average daily range from the measured table above.
- Add the entry cost, and the nightly swap if the trade will be held, since both come out of the same free margin.
- If you may want a payout while the trade is open, size so that the margin locked up still leaves something behind to withdraw.
Margin figures are approximate for USD-quoted majors and move with the live price; your platform shows the exact requirement for your account.
One EUR/USD lot: what is locked and what is left
| Leverage | Margin reserved | Free from a $2,000 balance | Free from a $1,000 balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:30 | $3,600 | Not enough to open | Not enough to open |
| 1:100 | $1,080 | $920 | Not enough to open |
| 1:200 | $540 | $1,460 | $460 |
Based on a EUR/USD standard lot of roughly $108,000 notional. Margin is reserved rather than charged and is released when the position closes; trading a smaller size reserves proportionally less.