Below is a short list of some of the important terms pertinent to foreign currency exchange.
Exchange Rate—The value of one currency expressed in terms of another.
Forex—The foreign exchange market (forex) is a global, decentralized, over-the-counter market for the trading of currencies and is the largest market in the world (followed by the credit market). This market is a necessity because one unit of currency very rarely equals exactly one unit of another currency. The forex is able to facilitate the receipt or payment of units of currency that are equal in value.
Bid Price—The price that a buyer is willing to pay for a unit of currency.
Ask Price—The price that a seller is willing to accept for a unit of currency.
Bid-Ask Spread—The difference between the bid and ask price. Theoretically, buyers want the smallest possible spreads, while sellers want the highest spreads. Real-world currency exchanges with brokers, banks, or businesses typically do not follow precise market rates. As financial middlemen, most will set exchange rates of their own at bid-ask spreads that return a percentage as profit for doing business. Some call this profit a fee or commission.
Pip—A pip is the smallest unit of value in a bid-ask spread. For example, 3 pips are the difference between the currency quote of EUR/USD / A pip is sometimes called a point.
Currency Pair—A quote of the relative value of one currency unit against another currency unit. The first currency in a currency pair is called the base currency, while the second is called the quote currency.
Interbank (bank-to-bank) Rate—This is the wholesale exchange rate that banks use between themselves.
Major Currencies—This refers to a short list of the most traded currencies, which generally stay the same year-to-year. Most recently, this includes the U.S. dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), Canadian dollar (CAD), and the Swiss franc (CHF). The USD in a currency pair with any of the others is known as a major currency pair.
Currency is a universal medium of exchange for goods and services in an economy, and it is believed to have been used as such dating back at least 3, years. Before this, it is assumed that bartering, which is the exchange of goods and services without the use of money, was likely used. Throughout history, currency has taken many different forms. Some examples include coins, barley, gold, silver, squirrel pelts, 8-ton carved limestone rocks, salt, knives, cowrie shells, stamps, potato mashers, peppercorn, tea bricks, and cheese.
History of Currency
As history has shown, anything that a group of people in an economy attaches value to can be used as currency. The first "official" currency was minted in the seventh century BC by King Alyattes of Lydia in modern-day Turkey. For practical reasons, Lydian currency took on the form of a round coin, which became the first ever standardized unit of currency. Paper currency, on the other hand, was invented in Asia and was brought back to Europe by Marco Polo after his travels to Asia.
Modern Currency
Modern currency is much more uniform and regulated. Major currencies in the world today take on the physical form of paper bills or coins which are easily carried on a person, but most of a person's currency is typically stored in digital accounts. The value of these currencies is backed by the promise of their issuing governments, which makes them fiat money (currency declared by the government to be an official medium of payment but is not backed by a physical commodity). Before fiat money existed, currencies were usually backed by a commodity such as gold or silver.
While modern currency is physically represented by coins and paper bills, most large-scale currency transactions are done electronically. Modern technology utilizes sophisticated currency exchange mechanisms and systems to exchange currencies between digital accounts rather than physically. Even the exchange of currency for everyday goods and services such as groceries or haircuts involves physical currencies less and less due to the growing popularity of debit cards, credit cards, and mobile payments.
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies operating independently of a central bank or authority, in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency as well as to verify the transfer of funds. The current technology behind cryptocurrencies is called blockchain, which is a decentralized ledger of all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. A prominent feature of blockchain is that participants can confirm transactions without the need for a central clearing authority, such as a central bank or government. The value of cryptocurrencies fluctuates, just like a regular currency, and they can be traded in the same way as any other currency. While bitcoin is currently the most recognizable cryptocurrency with the largest market cap by far, there are many other notable cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). Some experts say that there is a slight chance that cryptocurrencies become the currency of the future. For the purposes of this calculator, Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency available for conversion at the moment.
Currencies used in different countries are rarely, if ever, exactly equal in value. As a result, exchange rates (the rate at which a currency is exchanged for another) exist to enable the equal exchange of currencies. Real-time exchange rates are supplied by the foreign exchange market (forex), the same place where most currency transactions take place. The forex is a global, decentralized, over-the-counter market for the trading of currencies. Each day, trillions of dollars (US) worth of currency are traded. The market functions at high speeds, with exchange rates changing every second. The most common forex transactions are exchanges between the U.S. dollar and European euro, the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen, and the U.S. dollar to the British pound Sterling.
Forex Quotes
A forex quote always consists of two currencies, a base currency and a quote currency, sometimes called the counter currency. The most common base currencies are EUR (European Union euros), GBP (British pounds), AUD (Australian dollars), and USD (U.S. dollars). The following is an example of a forex quote:
EUR/USD
In this example, EUR is the base currency and USD is the quote currency, and what it means is that one euro is worth $ USD. In other words, $ is the purchase price in U.S. dollars (aside from external costs such as commission) of one euro. The base currency always equals exactly one. On the other hand, if the EUR/MXN rate (European Union euro to Mexican peso) is instead, Mexican pesos are required to purchase one euro. In the real world, most exchange rates are given in terms of how much a U.S. dollar is worth in a foreign currency. The euro is different in that it's given in terms of how much a euro is worth in U.S. dollars.
When buying foreign currencies, there are usually two prices listed: the buying rate and the selling rate. They are sometimes called the "bid price" and "ask price" for the currency pair, respectively. Buying foreign currency from a bank or exchange broker involves the selling (ask) price, which is usually higher than the buying price because, like all merchants, currency brokers sell high and buy low.
In the real world, the exchange rates can be influenced by thousands of different factors. The following are a few:
Anyone who desires to travel to a destination that uses a different currency can benefit from doing some research in advance.
To manage risk more effectively, it is important to know the pip value of each position in the currency of your trading account.
The FxPro Pip Calculator does this for you. All you have to do is enter your position details, including the instrument you are trading, the trade size and your account currency. Click ‘Calculate’ and the Pip Calculator will determine how much each pip is worth.
Example:
Trading 1 lot of EUR/USD with an account denominated in EUR
One pip in decimals
* , = 10 => 10 / =
For forex, the Pip Calculator works as follows:
Pip Value = (Pip in decimal places * Trade Size) / Market Price
Example:
Trading 1 lot ( Oz) of GOLD with an account denominated in USD
* = 1
Each tick is worth $1
For metals, you calculate tick value instead of pip value, and the Pip Calculator works as follows:
Tick Value = Tick in decimals () * Number of Oz
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Calculating a lot size in MetaTrader is normally not a quick task, but it is a very important one.
MetaTrader doesn't offer a fast way to calculate the position size, so, usually, a trader needs to manually perform several calculations.
When you are submitting an order, you are already supposed to know and type in the lot size for the trade.
So in this case, you should calculate it manually using the formula shared in our How to Calculate Position Size in MQL4 guide.
An alternative is to use an online tool, which isn't fastest way of doing this, obviously.
Lot Size Calculator is an easy and quick tool to calculate the position size in MT4 and see the lot size and risk-to-reward ratio.
Lot Size Calculator indicator for MT4 is a great tool to easily calculate the position size for a trade.
With Lot Size Calculator, you can:
This trading "plugin" allows you to perform operations that usually are not so quick and it is very simple to use.
The graphical interface is designed to be as simple as possible.
Whether you trade Forex, stocks, indices, commodities, or any other instruments, it is no secret that risk management is fundamental.
Risk management consists of a set of rules that can keep your account safe from unexpected events.
During your trading activities you will encounter periods of drawdown. You will encounter consecutive streaks of losses.
Using sound risk management can make a difference between blowing your account up or not.
Also, risk management is often the most striking difference between a successful trader and an amateur.
Risk management includes concepts like:
Stop-loss is a price, or a distance from the open price, where you want to exit a trade.
The stop-loss order is your last call to exit a trade and is part of almost every strategy and trade that you execute.
So, if you are in a trade, and the price moves against it, there is a price where the trade will be closed and the loss will become realized.
As a general rule, you should define the stop-loss before entering a trade.
One of the most popular rules of risk management is to invest in each trade only a small percentage of your entire account. This is to prevent your account from blowing up in case of a streak of losing trades.
For example, if you risk 25% of your account with each trade, after a streak of 4 losing trades, you are left with almost nothing.
If you use only % risk, after a streak of 4 losing trades, you would still have more than 90% of your balance available. Of course, if the trades were winners, the profit would have been higher, but it is important to be prepared to a high number of losing trades in a row.
Once you decide on your stop-loss price, it can be used in the calculation of the lot size, or position size, for the trade.
Another factor to consider to calculate the lot size for a trade in Forex, or another Asset, is the amount you are willing to risk. Depending on your strategy's statistics, usually you shouldn't risk more than 1% to 5% of your balance on a single trade.
You probably know that a common rule is to risk a maximum of 2% of your account. Once you settle on your strategy, risk, and stop-loss, you can calculate the lot size.
Another important aspect of every trade, or strategy, is the risk-to-reward ratio.
Risk-to-reward ratio indicates the ratio between the profit and the loss expected in a trade.
If you see a risk-to-reward ratio of 2 it means you are risking $1 to gain $2.
For example, you set the stop-loss for a trade to pips and the take-profit to pips — this is a risk-to-reward ratio of 2.
With this indicator, you can easily set the stop-loss and take-profit directly from the panel and then adjust the levels on the chart.
The chart is interactive, and you can move the lines to adjust the levels accordingly.
If you set a stop-loss, the Lot Size Calculator for MT4 immediately calculates the volume to satisfy the risk management conditions. Stop-loss can be set as distance from the open price or as an absolute price level.
If you set both stop-loss and take-profit, the indicator will show you the risk-to-reward ratio. This is very useful if you need to check if the trade satisfies your strategy's rules.
The indicator also allows you to change the calculation base, percentage, and amount you risk for flexible calculation.
You can use this link to download the Lot Size Calculator indicator for MT4 for free:
➥ Download MQLTA MT4 Lot Size CalculatorTo install MT4 Draw Grid indicator, please follow the instructions below:
If you are having trouble following these installation instructions, you can read our guide to MetaTrader product installation.
The Lot Size Calculator for MT4 is a great indicator, but if you want a tool that can also submit the order once the lot size is calculated, then you might be interested in One-Click Trade Pro expert advisor — a simple interface to calculate data and manage orders quickly.
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Select the instrument you're trading and the account currency (account base currency) of your forex trading account
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It can help you to accurately calculate how your trading account equity can be affected after a series of losing trades and eventually even recoup from previously losing trades.
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