Trading calculators: a page each, and they fill in the price themselves
Six calculators at /tools — position size, pip value, margin, swap, pivot points and risk of ruin. They pick up the pair's price on their own, and a finished calculation can be sent as a link.
Six calculators, six pages
Until now four calculators shared one page in the brokers section, in English only, and expected you to know the pip value and the conversion rate in advance. Each now has a page of its own under /tools, in 14 languages:
- Position size — how many lots to trade so that the stop costs exactly the share of the account you chose.
- Pip value — what one pip is worth at your volume, in your account currency.
- Margin — how much collateral the trade locks up at your leverage.
- Swap — what is credited or charged for one night and for N nights at your broker's swap rate.
- Pivot points — four sets of levels: classic, Woodie, Camarilla and Fibonacci.
- Risk of ruin — the probability of drawing down to the level you call ruin within N trades, given your win rate, reward-to-risk and risk per trade. It is computed exactly over every outcome rather than by Monte Carlo simulation, so the same link always gives the same number.
The old /brokers/calculators address still works and points to the new section.
The calculator knows the price
Pick a pair and the calculator fills in the pip value and the rate that converts it into your account currency, or the price for margin, from quotes on our MetaTrader bridge. Pivot points use the actual high, low and close of the previous day, week or month (days counted in UTC), so there are no three numbers to look up elsewhere. A line under the fields says where the numbers came from and as of when.
The limits: there are twelve pairs — the seven dollar majors and five crosses — and the quote refreshes every five minutes. Any field can be overwritten by hand. If the bridge is unavailable, the pair picker disappears and the calculator carries on with manual input.
A calculation is a link
Everything you enter is kept in the page address. The Copy link button hands over the whole calculation, and whoever opens it gets the calculator with the same numbers. Numbers from a link take priority over a fresh quote, so a calculation you send does not change on the other end.
