Calculator — EURUSD
Risk of a stop, by lot size — EURUSD
PAIR cheat sheet — EURUSD
Key facts — EURUSD
- 1 pip = 0.0001 (EURUSD, major)
- Standard lot: 100000 units of base — pip value ≈ $10.00
- Suggested initial stop: ~25 pips (volatility-based, see note above)
- Sample rate used: 1.138 — replace with a live quote before trading
Trading EURUSD - what to know
A standard lot of EURUSD is 100000 units of the base currency, and one pip = 0.0001 on one standard lot. The pair moves mainly during the London (08:00–16:30 UTC), while the USD side follows New York (13:30–20:00 UTC) and the London overlap. The deepest FX market: typical daily range ~60-90 pips, spreads from 0.1 pip. Spreads widen around news and the rollover hour - check your broker's live spread before sizing. This calculator pre-loads a 25-pip example stop and 30:1 leverage as a starting point; always size from your own stop and risk rule.
How this EURUSD calculator works
Position size answers one question: how many lots can you hold so that the distance to your stop costs the risk you chose? For EURUSD, one 1.00 lot is 100,000 units and a one-point move in price (0.0001) is worth $10.00 per lot. Multiply that by the number of points in your stop and you have the cost of being wrong.
Worked example — EURUSD
A $10,000 account risking 1% is risking $100. With a 25-point stop that money covers 25 points, so the size is $100 ÷ (25 × $10.00) ≈ 0.400 lots. At 1:30 that position needs about $1,517 of margin at the sample rate of 1.138 — margin is the entry ticket, not the risk. The stop is the risk.
What moves EURUSD
The deepest FX market: typical daily range ~60-90 pips, spreads from 0.1 pip.
Why the stop sets the size, not the leverage — EURUSD
Raising leverage lets you open a bigger position, which makes the same stop cost more money — it does not make the trade safer or the stop tighter. Size from the chart: find the level that would prove the idea wrong, measure the distance, then let the calculator translate that into lots. If the answer is smaller than your broker's minimum lot, the honest response is to skip the trade, not to widen the stop.
Contract sizes and sample rates follow common CFD specifications; brokers differ, so confirm both on your broker's contract sheet before sizing a live trade.