My account details

Hello,
Please help me understand what % of my account I'm risking. I have one open position with 1 regular lot (100 000). Leverage 200:1

Balance: 5 619.04 Equity: 5 499.04 Margin: 381.50 Free margin: 5 127.54 Margin level: 1444.05%

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Please forgive me but I quite don't understand your question...
So you have an open postition?
You want to know how much you are risking with that open trade?

If so, potentially you are risking your whole account. That is to say if the currency you are trading goes 500 points against you, which would be quite unlikely in a short period of time?

Please clarify your question.
Personally with that account balance I wouldn't be trading lots of 100,000. At most I PERSONALLY would only trade 30,000 in position.

But then again I really don't understand your question at all, so perhaps I am just taking a shot into nothing.

None of your provided info means a hill of beans with out knowing how many pips your stop is from entry AND which pair your trading.

Well, OK, I'm sorry. I just wanted to learn how to read those numbers in my account.

My stop is 30 pips and I know that I should calculate the risk from there, as it was well explained in other threads.

hi

if your stoploss is 30 pips, it means you are risking 30 pips, that are 300$ on one lot.

300$ / 5 619.04 $ = 0,0534

it means you are risking 5.34 % of your balance

Yup, that's it. 5% may be considered a lot for some folks. But then again, if you have a chart pattern that is screaming at you...Until you know the in's and out's of your system, platform, or instrument that you are trading keep the risk to 2% or less. Preservation of capital is the rule of this game. The markets aren't going anywhere and the set-up you are looking for WILL happen again. Once you are comfortable with what you are doing and your account size 'lets you', don't increase your risk, increase your lot size. Good Trading To You

Thanks guys!

Good trading to all.