What Changes in an Instrument Without You · Tanzania
A symbol is not a constant. Its contract specification and its availability are maintained on the venue side and can move while a position in it is already open.
Open Exness Account →An instrument carries properties that nobody on the account side chose: its contract size, its price step, the way its point is valued and whether it is accepting orders at this moment. Those live on the venue side and can be changed there. A change applies to the symbol, so it also reaches positions that were opened under the previous values, and it arrives without any action, any notification or any update to the program on the account side.
The parts of an instrument nobody on the account side sets
- Contract size, minimum price step and the way a point is valued are properties of the symbol, not of the order that used it.
- A symbol can be present in the platform and closed to new orders at the same time — availability is a state of the symbol, not a permission on the account.
- A change to a specification applies to the symbol, which means it reaches positions opened under the previous values.
- None of this arrives with an update to the program: the specification is requested from the server on connection.
- What the order set — volume, direction, protective levels — stays exactly as it was left.
- The current values are readable against the symbol itself in the platform, not inside the order ticket.
Set by the symbol vs set by your order
| Property | Belongs to | Can move while a position is open |
|---|---|---|
| Contract size | The symbol | Yes |
| Minimum price step | The symbol | Yes |
| Whether the symbol accepts orders right now | The symbol | Yes |
| Volume of the position | Your order | No |
| Direction of the position | Your order | No |
| Stop loss and take profit levels | Your order | Only if you move them |
Two sets of properties inside one position
Every open position is made of two things that are easy to confuse. One half was chosen by the person who opened it: the volume, the direction, the protective levels. That half is frozen until somebody changes it, and nothing on the venue side rewrites it.
The other half came with the symbol and was never a choice at all. Contract size, price step, the way a point converts into money — these are attributes of the instrument, and the order simply inherited whatever they were at the moment it was sent.
A change reaches trades that already exist
Because the inherited half belongs to the symbol rather than to the ticket, an adjustment made on the venue side does not stop at the boundary of new orders. It applies to the symbol, and a position holding that symbol is holding whatever the symbol currently is.
The practical consequence is that a position can be worth a slightly different amount per point than it was when it was opened, without anybody having touched it. The position was not modified; the thing it refers to was.
Where the current values are readable
The order ticket is not the place to look. It records what was sent, and it goes on recording that forever. The specification of the symbol is a separate view in the platform, and it shows the values that are in force now rather than the ones that applied when the trade was placed.
Nothing has to be downloaded or refreshed by hand for that view to be current. The platform asks the server for it on connection, which is why a specification changed during a long absence is already correct the first time the platform is opened again.
Frequently asked questions
Can the specification of an instrument change while a position in it is open?
Does a change of specification modify the order that was sent?
Does the platform need an update to see a new specification?
Can an instrument be visible in the platform and still refuse an order?
Where is the value of a point for an instrument shown?
Is any of this a decision made on the account?
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