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What Moves on an Exness Account Card Without You

Some fields on the account screen are fixed by the account type and never move on their own. Others are recalculated by the market between one look and the next.

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An Exness account card mixes two kinds of field. The account number, its type, its base currency and its trading mode are set once and stay put until a request changes them. Balance, equity, free margin and margin level are produced on the broker side: equity and the two figures derived from it move with every price tick, and they were already moving long before the screen was opened.

Fixed fields and live fields

Which field waits for the market and which waits for you

Field on the account cardMoves by itselfWhat moves it
Account number and typeNoOpening a different account
Base currencyNoChosen once, when the account is created
Trading modeNoA request to change it
BalanceOnly on closure or accrualA position closed, funds arriving, an accrual applied
EquityYes, with every tickThe running result of open positions
Free marginYesEquity minus the part held under open positions
Margin levelYesThe relation between equity and the part held

The screen reports, it does not calculate

Opening the platform starts no calculation. The figures shown were produced on the broker side, and the platform asks for the current ones on connection. A number that looks new is not new — it is the first sight of something that has been changing since the last visit.

That is also why two devices signed in to the same account show the same figures. There is one account record and several windows onto it, rather than several copies being kept in step with each other.

Static fields are a decision, live fields are an outcome

The static half of the card is the shape of the account: which of Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread or Zero it is, which base currency it holds, and whether it sits in a swap-free mode. Each of those was chosen at some point and none of them drifts.

The live half is an outcome rather than a decision. It is produced by prices moving for or against positions that are already open, and it keeps being produced while the account is unattended.

Reading the four live figures in order

Balance answers what has already been settled. Equity answers what would be settled if everything open were closed at this second. The distance between the two is the whole of the unsettled result.

Free margin answers what is still uncommitted, and margin level is the figure the server compares with its own threshold. Those four in that order describe the state of an account without a single chart being opened.

Frequently asked questions

Which fields on an Exness account change while nobody is signed in?
Equity, free margin and margin level, because they are recalculated from live prices against open positions. Balance changes only when a position is closed, when funds arrive or when an accrual is applied.
Why do balance and equity show different numbers?
Balance is what has already been settled; equity adds the running result of every position still open. When nothing is open the two are the same figure.
Is the account type itself a live field?
No. Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread and Zero are set when the account is created and stay set; the type does not change on its own.
Does the base currency of an account ever change by itself?
No. It is chosen once, when the account is created, and stays fixed for that account.
Does opening the app recalculate anything?
No. The platform requests the current figures and displays them. The calculation happens on the broker side whether or not any device is connected.
Which figure does automatic closure watch?
Margin level. It is a ratio, which is why it can fall while the balance itself is untouched.

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