Exness Lot Size Calculator

Calculations use spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.

What lot size fits a $1,000 account risking 2%?

Risking 2% of a $1,000 account puts $20 at risk. With a 30-pip stop-loss on EUR/USD, where one pip per lot is worth about $10.00 at measured specs, the size is about 0.07 lots — around 7,000 units, needing about $39.78 of margin at 1:200 leverage.

Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). Converted to a local currency, the same amounts follow the current exchange rate, which changes through the day.

The position-sizing formula, worked three ways

A lot is the standard contract unit, and its size depends on the instrument: 1.00 lot of EUR/USD is 100,000 units of the base currency, 1.00 lot of gold is 100 troy ounces. This is the page that answers how many lots, not how much the trade might make. Lots = risk amount ÷ (stop-loss in pips × pip value per lot). Three inputs, in this order: the money that may be lost, the distance to the stop, and what one pip is worth on one lot. Neither the entry price nor the leverage of the account appears in the formula — they decide what the position costs to hold, not what it can lose.

EUR/USD. A $5,000 balance risking 1% is $50. With a 25-pip stop and a pip value of $10.00 per lot: 50 ÷ (25 × 10) = 0.20 lots. Tighten the stop to 10 pips on the same account and the answer becomes 50 ÷ (10 × 10) = 0.50 lots — the same $50 at risk, on a position two and a half times larger, and one that a normal hour of movement can close.

Gold. The measured 14-day average daily range on XAU/USD was about 7,700 pips on 26 July 2026, which is roughly 77.00 in price, so a stop that respects the instrument is a different order of magnitude: half that range is about 3,850 pips, or 38.50. The pip value on the 100-ounce contract is $1.00 per lot, so a $10,000 balance risking 1% gives 100 ÷ (3,850 × 1) = 0.026 lots, traded as 0.02. The instrument changes the pip value and the sensible stop distance; it never changes the method.

Rounding, the minimum lot and the volume step

Volume moves in steps of 0.01 lots on EUR/USD and on gold, and some instruments start higher — the contract specifications measured on 26 July 2026 show a 0.03-lot minimum on the US500 index, 0.10 on ETH/USD and a whole 1.00-lot minimum with a 1.00 step on the JP225. A computed size of 0.067 lots is therefore not tradable on EUR/USD; it has to become 0.06 or 0.07.

Round down, and know that the calculator does not. On a $1,000 account risking 2% with a 30-pip EUR/USD stop the formula returns 0.067 lots, and the widget above — like the worked example higher up this page — rounds to the nearest step and shows 0.07. That 0.07 puts $21.00 at risk, which is 2.1% of the account and outside the stated limit, while 0.06 puts $18.00 at risk, 1.8%, inside it. One step down is the only direction that keeps the risk rule true, so treat the displayed size as an upper bound and step it down when the third decimal is not zero.

On a small balance the minimum volume can already exceed the intended risk. On EUR/USD, 0.01 lot with a 30-pip stop risks $3.00, which is 3% of a $100 account; on gold, 0.01 lot with the 3,850-pip stop above risks $38.50, so 1% of the account would need a balance of $3,850 before the smallest tradable size fits the rule. The honest fixes are a wider stop, an instrument with a smaller pip value, or a larger balance — never a bigger position than the rule allows.

Checking the stop against the measured daily range

A stop belongs where the trade idea is wrong, and it still has to survive ordinary movement. The 14-day average daily range on EUR/USD measured 44.3 pips on 26 July 2026, and 50.9 pips over 50 days, so a 10-pip stop sits inside a quarter of a normal day's travel and is likely to be taken out by noise however flattering the lot size it produces. Pro mode reads the same measurement: it prints Avg daily range (measured) with Set ½× and Set 1× buttons, and reports the chosen stop as a multiple of the range in the Stop vs ADR output.

A stop is an instruction to close at the next available price, not a promise of that price. The measured specifications put the minimum stop distance at 0 points on EUR/USD, so placement is not restricted by the platform — but the same feed measured an average daily opening gap of 1.7 pips on EUR/USD, with a widest gap of 20.0 pips in the 14-day window. A position sized to lose $100 at its stop can lose more than that when the market reopens past it, which is the argument for sizing off a percentage of the account rather than off the largest loss that feels survivable.

The resulting volume still has to fit the account. Pro mode reports the margin the size needs and the share of the balance it consumes; the same figures for any volume, together with pip value, spread cost and swap, are on the Exness trading calculator. Once a size is fixed, the Exness profit calculator prices that exact trade at a chosen entry and exit, gross and net of the spread, commission and overnight swap, and returns the break-even exit level.

Five errors that quietly change the real risk

Sizing off the starting balance instead of current equity. Open positions and past results have already moved the number the percentage should apply to.

Choosing the size first and the stop afterwards. The stop is an input; the size is the output. Reversing them turns a risk rule into a wish.

Forgetting the spread. The loss recorded when a stop is hit includes the spread paid at entry, so the real figure is slightly larger than the plan — about $0.80 on 0.10 lot of EUR/USD at the measured 0.8-pip median.

Borrowing a pip value from another instrument. $10.00 per lot is EUR/USD; gold is $1.00, USD/JPY about $6.10, US Oil $10.00 per 0.01 move.

Confusing lots with units. 0.20 lots on a 100,000 contract is 20,000 units of the base currency, and 0.01 lot is 1,000 units.

Sizing a position in six steps

1. Start from current equity — the balance adjusted for the running result of any open positions — not from the amount the account started with.
2. Fix the percentage before looking at the chart. One and two per cent are the usual limits; 1% of $5,000 is $50.
3. Place the stop where the trade idea would be proven wrong, then check it against the instrument: Set ½× in Pro mode puts it at half the measured average daily range, 22 pips on EUR/USD at the 44.3-pip range measured on 26 July 2026.
4. Enter balance, percentage and stop distance — Simple for the bare lots figure, Pro · Sizing (the view the page opens on) for the same answer with the margin check beside it.
5. Round the displayed size down to the instrument's step when it is not exact: 0.067 becomes 0.06, not the 0.07 the field shows, and re-read the money at risk that implies.
6. Check Margin required against the balance, then place the order with the stop attached from the start — a size calculated from a stop that is never entered protects nothing.

Pro mode adds the account currency, the measured average daily range as a stop hint, Stop vs ADR, Units and the margin check in one view. To price the trade once the size is fixed, use the Exness profit calculator.

Lots for a $10,000 account risking 1% ($100) on EUR/USD

Pip value $10.00 per 1.00 lot on EUR/USD. Sizes are rounded down to the 0.01 step, which is why the money at risk lands at or below the $100 limit. The range column compares the stop with the 14-day average daily range of 44.3 pips measured on 26 July 2026 — the same number Pro mode shows as Stop vs ADR. A stop under half a daily range is inside ordinary noise.

Minimum volume, step and maximum by instrument

From the Exness MT5 contract specifications measured on a live Standard account on 26 July 2026. A computed size below the minimum is not tradable at all, and the step is what the size has to be rounded to — down, so the risk stays inside the limit.

The same $100 of risk on four instruments

Each stop is set at roughly half to two thirds of that instrument's 14-day average daily range measured on 26 July 2026: 44.3 pips on EUR/USD, 61.8 on USD/JPY, about 7,700 on gold and 342.3 on US Oil. Gold and oil land well under the $100 limit because the 0.01 step is coarse relative to the size the formula asks for — rounding down costs a little risk budget and that is the right way to lose it. USD/JPY converts at the rate of the day.

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