Practice tool, used off the trading screen

Work the size out before the app is open · India

The arithmetic needs no price and no trading screen — only three figures you already know. It returns the same answer on any device, so the moment to run it is while nothing is moving.

A number decided next to a moving price is rarely the number you meant. The middle input is a rule, not a reading: no more than 1% of the money on one trade, settled once. On a $100 deposit that is $1 — the same $1 on any device.

Your deposit (USD)

Risk per trade

Stop-loss distance (pips)

Money at risk on this trade$1.00

Trade size on a Standard account—

Same trade on a Standard Cent account—

The sums assume a pair priced in dollars, such as EUR/USD, where one pip on one full lot is worth $10 (100,000 units × 0.0001). Other instruments carry a different pip value, and the platform prints the exact figure for an order before you confirm it. For learning and planning, not advice.

Which of these figures a device could ever change

Three lines go in, three come back, and none of them is decided by the thing you are holding.

Figure	Where it is settled	What a phone changes
Deposit	Your own budget, before anything opens	Nothing
Risk per trade	A rule chosen once: 0.5%, 1% or 2%	Nothing — but a screen within reach invites re-typing it
Stop-loss distance	A level you pick, counted in pips	Nothing here; the reading is a separate job
Trade size	Money at risk ÷ (pips × $10)	Nothing; 0.01 stays the smallest Standard trade
The stop-loss, once the order is sent	Held on the trading server	Nothing: it is stored on the server, not on your phone

That last row is why the sums are worth finishing early: a confirmed limit goes on holding while the device lies face down.

The note written before anything is opened

Three short lines, on paper or in a notes file, none of them needing the platform.

The deposit as it stands today — not last month's figure, and not the one you intend to reach.

The share one trade may lose, as a percent and as an amount, so that $1 is on the page and not only 1%.

The size printed above, copied as it stands, including the cent-lot line when the Standard figure lands below 0.01.

What the screen adds afterwards

This page does not know the instrument, today's prices or the spread; it does the risk arithmetic. The live figures are read elsewhere: the exact pip value, margin and costs of an order are printed before you confirm — in the Exness Trade app, in Exness Terminal, or in MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.

One line is added once the position is gone: the size planned, and the size sent. A gap between them dates the moment the sums stopped being followed. The inputs can be rehearsed on a free demo account; the rule behind the middle box sits in the safety rules.

Eight questions asked away from the price

Does the answer change if the figures are typed on a phone?

It does not. $100 × 1% is $1 on any device, and $1 ÷ (20 × $10) is 0.005 lots on any device.

Why finish the number before the app is open at all?

Because once it is open, a price moves beside the box you are filling in. The arithmetic never needed that price.

The size came out below 0.01. What now?

Small money with a wide stop gives exactly that. It is what the Standard Cent account is for, where the same trade is 0.5 cent-lots.

Is a size worked out yesterday still good this morning?

Only while all three inputs hold. The deposit moves whenever a trade closes, so re-run the lines rather than reuse the answer.

Where do the final figures come from, if not from here?

From the platform, which prints the exact pip value, margin and costs for your order before you confirm it.

Does any of this survive closing the app?

The note does — it was never inside the app. So does the stop-loss on a sent order, stored on the trading server.

Should the size be recalculated while a trade is running?

There is nothing left to size once the order exists. A recount mid-trade is a request to change the decision.

Why write the amount down as well as the percent?

Because 1% is an abstraction and $1 is not. The amount is what a losing trade actually removes.

Keep going

The stop-loss itself

What the distance in the third box is, and why an order keeps its limit after the device is put down.

Read the safety rules

Where 0.01 stops being the floor

The Standard Cent account, and why beginner-sized trades end up on it.

Compare the accounts

Pip, lot, stop-loss

The three words this page multiplies together, sorted by where each one belongs.

Check the words

Type the same three figures with virtual money.

A demo account is free and has no time limit: the printed size, a stop-loss, nothing at stake.

Open a free demo at Exness