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Margin

What a position ties up, at any leverage.

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Not a fee, but funds set by:held for as long as the trade is live.

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Instrument

1 standard lot = 100,000 EUR

Position size

Price (USD)

ECB reference, 9 Oct 2026. Replace with your platform’s price.

Leverage (1 : n)

Lower leverage means more margin, and less exposure per unit of equity.

Account balance

Account currency

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Required margin

1,120.60 USD

on a notional value of 112,060.00 USD

Share of balance

11.21%

Margin level at opening 892.4%

The bar is the balance. The filled part is tied up as margin. The two lines mark the equity at which the published margin call (100%) and stop out (30%) levels are reached as losses reduce equity from right to left.

Free margin after opening: 8,879.40 USD
Loss that brings the margin level to 100%: 8,879.40 USD
Loss that brings it to 30% (stop out): 9,663.82 USD

SimulationA calculation on the figures you entered. Margin is not a cost and not the most that can be lost. Educational information, not investment advice or a recommendation to trade.

How it works

Formula

margin = (lots × contract size × price) ÷ leverage

With your numbers

1Notional value, in USD1 × 100,000 × 1.1206 = 112,060.00 USD
2Margin at 1:100112,060.00 ÷ 100 = 1,120.60 USD
3Share of the balance1,120.60 ÷ 10,000.00 = 11.21%
4Margin level at the moment of opening (equity ÷ margin)10,000.00 ÷ 1,120.60 × 100 = 892.4%
5Equity at the 100% margin call level1,120.60 × 100% = 1,120.60 USD
6Equity at the 30% stop out level1,120.60 × 30% = 336.18 USD

Assumptions

This is the only open position, and equity equals the balance at the moment of opening.
Margin call at 100% and stop out at 30% are the levels GIO4X publishes for its account types. A stop out closes positions at the prices then available; in a gap, equity can fall below the level shown.
The leverage available depends on the instrument and on your jurisdiction, and can be lower than the figure you set here.
The price is an input. For currency pairs it is prefilled with the ECB reference rate; for everything else you type the price you see, because this site holds no price for it.

Terms used

In plain language

Margin is a deposit against the position, not its price and not its risk.

To open a leveraged position you set aside a fraction of its full value. That fraction is the margin, and leverage is simply the ratio between the two: at 1:100 the margin is one hundredth of the position’s notional value.

Margin is returned when the position is closed, so it is not a cost. Nor is it the most you can lose: profit and loss are calculated on the full notional value, and a loss is taken from the rest of your equity first and then from the margin itself.

The margin level compares your equity with the margin in use. GIO4X publishes a margin call at 100% and a stop out at 30% for its account types; the reference lines show how much equity is left at each.

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How it works

Formula

margin = (lots × contract size × price) ÷ leverage

With your numbers

1Notional value, in USD1 × 100,000 × 1.1206 = 112,060.00 USD

2Margin at 1:100112,060.00 ÷ 100 = 1,120.60 USD

3Share of the balance1,120.60 ÷ 10,000.00 = 11.21%

4Margin level at the moment of opening (equity ÷ margin)10,000.00 ÷ 1,120.60 × 100 = 892.4%

5Equity at the 100% margin call level1,120.60 × 100% = 1,120.60 USD

6Equity at the 30% stop out level1,120.60 × 30% = 336.18 USD

Assumptions

This is the only open position, and equity equals the balance at the moment of opening.

Margin call at 100% and stop out at 30% are the levels GIO4X publishes for its account types. A stop out closes positions at the prices then available; in a gap, equity can fall below the level shown.

The leverage available depends on the instrument and on your jurisdiction, and can be lower than the figure you set here.

The price is an input. For currency pairs it is prefilled with the ECB reference rate; for everything else you type the price you see, because this site holds no price for it.

Terms used