Exness Trading Calculator: What the Order Ticket Holds · Tanzania
An order ticket is a set of constraints rather than a wish. The volume decides the margin, the margin decides how much free margin is left, and free margin decides whether the next ticket is accepted at all. Working those three numbers here first turns sending the order into a decision that has already been made.
Every order ticket asks for the same three things — symbol, volume and leverage — and answers with the one number that decides whether the ticket can be sent at all: the margin the position will hold. What is left after that is free margin, and free margin is what the next ticket has to work with. The panel below runs the same arithmetic the Trade tab will run, on measured spreads and contract specifications, so the figure on screen is the figure the platform will hold. Pro mode adds the stop, the target, commission and nights held.
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Calculations use spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-08-16). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.
What does a 0.01-lot ticket hold in margin?
On a USD account, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD is 1,000 units of the base currency — a position of about $1,157 at the measured mid rate of 1.15703. At 1:200 leverage it needs about $5.79 of margin, one pip is worth about $0.10, and crossing the measured 0.8-pip spread costs about $0.08.
Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-08-16). Converted to a local currency, the same amounts follow the current exchange rate, which changes through the day.
Questions about the ticket
What is the difference between free margin and balance?
Why does the same volume hold different margin on different symbols?
Does the spread cost apply before or after the trade?
What does margin level tell a trader?
Can this panel replace the figures in the platform?
Which leverage figure does the ticket arithmetic use?
Can the ticket be read in a second currency?
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Margin held against free margin left
Balance and equity stop being the same thing the moment a position exists. Balance is the settled figure; equity is balance plus or minus whatever the open positions are showing right now. Margin is carved out of equity, and the remainder — free margin — is the only part a new ticket can draw on.
The arithmetic is short. Position size divided by leverage gives the margin a symbol will hold, and the panel shows it per instrument because contract sizes differ: one lot of a currency pair, one lot of gold and one index contract are not the same notional at all.
Margin level is the ratio the platform actually watches — equity divided by margin held, shown as a percentage. It falls when open positions move against the account and again when a new position is added, and at the threshold set for the account type the platform starts closing positions on its own.
When a ticket is refused
A refused order is rarely a mystery. The common cause is a volume the free margin cannot support: the number was chosen for an empty account and the account is no longer empty. Reducing the volume, or closing something already open, changes the answer immediately.
The second cause is a volume the symbol does not accept. Each instrument has a smallest step and a smallest and largest order size, and a figure that falls between the steps is rounded or rejected rather than quietly taken as typed.
The third is a stop or a target placed too close to the current price. Levels have a minimum distance from the market, and a ticket carrying a level inside that distance comes back instead of going through — the fix is a wider level, not a second attempt.
Working a ticket from the top down
- Fix the symbol first: contract size, pip value and spread all change with it, so nothing below is comparable until the instrument is decided.
- Type the volume you intend, not the volume you hope for, and read the margin it produces.
- Subtract that margin from the free margin the account currently shows — if the remainder is thin, the ticket is too big whatever the stop says.
- Add the stop distance and read the loss at the stop in money rather than in pips.
- Add the nights the position is meant to stay open, so the swap line is part of the decision instead of a surprise.
- Send the ticket, then check that the Trade tab holds the margin the panel predicted.
Indicative figures — the account terms in the platform are what apply.
Ticket fields and what each one decides
| Field | What it sets | What it changes downstream |
|---|---|---|
| Symbol | Contract size, pip value, spread | Every money figure below it |
| Volume | Notional exposure | Margin held and loss per pip |
| Leverage | Margin divided out of notional | Free margin left for other tickets |
| Stop level | Distance to the exit | Loss at the stop, in money |
| Target level | Distance to the objective | Reward against risk, before costs |
| Nights held | Number of swap charges | Net result on a position kept open |
Indicative — the panel works from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account.