calculate pip value, margin required

Dear friends, i want to ask how would u calculate pip value,margin required to open position and swap ?
I know broker listed swap value (in term of point). But i want to know how it is work ?
Margin requirements to open a lot for different pairs are also different. How would u calculate them ?

Iam using metatrader plateform with metaquoto server. I found to open a lot of usd/jpy margin requirement is $1000 but for gbp/usd it is different. i have a excel file where i store pipe value and margin requirement of pairs.

Please answer me.

The rollover paid depends on the broker, I'm attaching a screenshot of the rollovers paid by FXCM, so you can get a rough idea as is more or less the same in other brokers.

The pip value also comes in the screenshot, maybe a good idea is placing a position in your demo, if you are earning one pip (or loosing) look at how much it wort in $.

The margin requirement depends on the leverage you have available, in general terms:

Leverage 1:100
1 Mini Lot (10,000) needs $100 available
1 Normal Lot (100,000) needs $1,000 available

Leverage 1:200
1 Mini Lot needs $50 available
1 Normal Lot needs $500 available

Leverage 1:400
1 Mini Lot needs $25 available
1 Normal Lot needs $250 available

And so on.

Hope this helps.

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To calculate pip value you need to know 1) how many units of the quote currency have been bought/sold, and 2) how many pips of your account's currency is equal to 1 pip of the quote currency. Let's take AUD/NZD as an example. Suppose you buy 1 mini-lot of this pair. This means is that you have bought 10,000 units of the base currency (AUD) and sold an equivalent amount of the quote currency (NZD). Since 1 AUD = 1.1811 NZD, you have sold 11,811 NZD. Let's further assume that your account's currency is USD. We now need to know how many pips of USD is equal to 1 pip of NZD. Well, we know that 1 NZD = .7645 USD, so .0001 NZD = .00007645 USD. This implies that each pip of NZD is worth (11,811)*(.00007645) USD = .90295 USD.

Continuing with the previous example, suppose that your account has 200:1 leverage. All this means is that the collateral you need to perform the transaction is 200th the value of whatever amount you bought/sold. Since you bought 10,000 AUD, and since 1 AUD = .9047 USD, you bought 9,047 USD. So your broker will ask for (9,047/200) USD = 45.235 USD of collateral

To calculate the swap all you have to remember is that you pay the interest on the currency that you sold, and are payed the interest on the currency that you bought. The current interest on AUD is 6.75% (per year), and that on NZD is 8.25% (per year). To find the daily interest, you simply divide by 365: 6.75%/365 = .0185% and 8.25%/365 = .0226%. So, if you hold the position overnight, you will be payed (.000185)*(10,000 AUD) = 1.85 AUD = 1.67 USD and you will pay (.000226)*(11,811 NZD) = 2.67 NZD = 2.04 USD. Your account will therefore lose (2.04-1.67) USD = .37 USD.

thanks friends.

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copy this script to metra trader folder in experts\scripts folder
then drag and drop the script to chart that you need to calculate ...

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