Forex margin calculator, simple calculation of funds required for collateral

You've probably often encountered a situation when opening a deal, when an attempt to open an order is rejected.

And in the window for opening a new order, an unpleasant inscription appears: “Not enough money”; in this case, the fault is due to the excessively large volume of the position being opened.

Or, to be more precise, there is not enough funds on deposit to open a new transaction, even taking into account the available leverage.

The collateral that is blocked during a new transaction is called margin, and it is better to know in advance how much funds are needed so that a refusal does not occur.

The approximate size of margin on Forex can be calculated quite simply, just decide on the volume of a new position, know the size of the leverage on your account and the current exchange rate.

For example, the EUR/USD currency pair current rate is 1.10, volume is 1 lot, leverage is 1:100, for a given volume of a trading position the deposit will be - 110,000/100 = 1,100 US dollars.

In this case, everything is quite simple, but situations and numbers are different, so a more effective option is to use a Forex margin calculator.

How to Use a Forex Margin Calculator

At the moment, there are a lot of different calculators with which you can calculate all the necessary parameters of a transaction - the cost of a point, the swap for transferring a position, the size of the spread and the actual margin size:

An example of how a universal calculator works - https://time-forex.com/praktika/kalkulator-stoimosti-punkta

There are also calculators designed only for calculating the margin required when opening a Forex transaction:

They calculate one parameter - margin. In this case, to carry out calculations, you need to specify a Symbol, in our example this is USD/JPY US dollar and Japanese yen, the calculation currency, the leverage on your account, and the size of the planned transaction in lots.

The Forex margin calculator described above is located in the trader’s personal account at the NPBFX broker . In order to use it and other useful tools, you need to register; you do not need to replenish your account.

Unlike those Forex margin calculators that are installed directly into the trading platform, this tool works more correctly and stably.