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The figure this page prints, and the box that takes it (Nigeria)

Three lines print below; one is typed into the trading screen. This page follows that figure across, and marks where it stops matching.

A common beginner rule is to risk no more than 1% on a single trade: with a $100 deposit, never more than $1. The order window has no box for «$1» or «1%» — only for size.

Worst case in money — typed nowhere$1.00
Goes in the volume box — Standard—
Same box, Standard Cent account—

Figures assume a pair quoted in dollars, such as EUR/USD, where one pip on a full lot is worth $10. Other instruments differ; the platform prints exact values before an order is confirmed. This tool is for learning only — not financial advice.

Three lines here, one box there

  • The worst case in money. No field takes it; the closed trade is checked against it.
  • The Standard line. The one that travels — into the volume box, in lots.
  • The cent line. The same trade in a smaller unit, on a Standard Cent account.

The unit changes on the way across

The gap is typed here in pips: a distance is easy to count. The exit field takes a price level instead — measure the gap off the quote on the chart, then type that level.

Size shifts unit too: 0.005 lots and 0.5 cent-lots are one trade written twice, like grams and kilograms.

What the box will not hold

A Standard volume box stops at 0.01 lots, and rounds down, never up. The dropped fraction is unspent room; typing 0.01 anyway lifts the trade above the ceiling the safety rules set.

Two windows and one keyboard

  1. Platform first

    The account line decides which of the two sizes travels.

  2. Then this page

    Side by side on a desktop; on a phone, in turn — the figure crossing through memory.

  3. Type it, then read the box back

    A decimal separator typed the wrong way changes the trade, not the plan.

Boxes on the ticket this page never fills

  • The instrument. Never asked here, yet the pip value follows from it.
  • The direction. A pair of buttons on the ticket, never a number.
  • Margin and the costs. Both appear only after a size exists.

This site is an independent guide, not a broker: it opens no accounts, holds no money and takes no documents.

Questions asked with both windows open

Which digits of the printed size does the volume box keep?

Two decimals, rounded down: the leftover fraction stays unspent.

Is there a field on the ticket that takes the gap as a distance?

No. That field takes a price level, not a distance.

Nothing on the ticket mentions a percentage. Where did the ceiling go?

Into the size; the trace is how small the number looks.

Two sizes print and one box is waiting. Which line gets typed?

The one matching the open account; the other number is a far bigger trade.

A margin figure appeared once the size was typed. Is that a second ceiling?

No. It is what the platform holds back while the trade runs.

Every box went back to its starting number after a reload.

Nothing was stored; the three figures are retyped.

Both screens will not fit on a phone. Does the order of opening matter?

It does: platform, then this page, then the ticket.

The size was accepted but the order was refused. Which box gets blamed wrongly?

The size box. The screen states the real reason.

A figure will not go into the box at all. Where does that question go?

To the platform for the field, to the form here for the sums.

Where the figure lands

The window with the box in it

Where the trade sits once the ticket is confirmed.

Follow one trade

Which account is counting

What that name changes about the units.

Compare the accounts

The words on the boxes

Lot, pip, volume, level: typed, printed, or neither.

Read the labels

Carry the figure across on virtual money first.

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