Building a database - what are units called?

Hi there,

I'm building a database to track my trades and I wondered how I should enter the amount of currency. What should I call it? I've currently called it lots but I'm going to start trading with a very small amount so would probably like to use the base currency units as the denomination. However what should I call this?

Units?

Thing is I divide my trade in half and call each half a unit. So I will open the trade with 2 units and then take 1 unit off, so am keen not to use that term. What other terms can you think of?

Thanks for any insight.

nano-lot

Just to confirm 1 unit of the base currency = 1 nano-lot?

1 nano lot = 0.001 of standard lot; so it's 100 units of base currency.

Oanda uses "units" in their platform. It will be hard to come up with nice word, maybe try "amount"?

Yeah I thought of that but it's quite a vague term. I guess there is no term for a currency unit, except for well, er, a currency unit.