Handset-only setup · measured figures
Exness calculator on a phone: margin, pip value and swaps with nothing else open
This page assumes one device: the handset is the trading terminal, the calculator and the notepad at once, with no second screen to set down beside it. The panel below takes an instrument, a volume in lots and a leverage ratio, and returns required margin, pip value, spread cost, position size and both overnight swaps — worked from spreads and contract specifications taken from Exness's own MT5 (Standard) feed, with the snapshot date printed in the panel header.
Trading calculator
The whole calculation fits on the screen that is already open
Volume is entered in lots — a lot is a standard trade size, on forex pairs 100,000 units of the base currency. The list holds 23 measured instruments: forex majors and crosses, gold and silver, oil, BTC/USD and ETH/USD, and equity index CFDs, which track an asset's price without owning it. In portrait the three inputs sit above the six results, so the field being edited and the figure being watched are rarely in view together — change one input, then scroll to read the row.
Reading the six outputs: margin is the deposit set aside to keep the position open — position size divided by the leverage ratio. A pip is the standard step a price is quoted in, 0.0001 on EUR/USD. On Standard accounts the brokerage charge sits inside the spread. Swap is the fee or credit for holding past the daily rollover, per night in each direction. Leverage multiplies losses exactly as it multiplies gains.
Calculations use spreads and contract specs from Exness's own MT5 (Standard) feed, measured in the trading terminal (2026-08-11). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.
Inside the mobile terminal
Where the specification screen hides on a handset
The mobile terminal holds its own copy of these figures, on a screen most people never find because nothing points at it. Long-press a symbol in the quotes list and choose Specification: contract size, tick value, minimum volume, volume step and swap long and swap short all sit there, in the MT4 mobile app and the MT5 mobile app alike.
Why it is worth finding once
A specification read inside the terminal that holds the account governs an order placed from it. The panel here is indicative, from a dated snapshot; the terminal screen is live. Knowing which is which explains most small differences between them.
Why it is awkward as a habit
It is buried behind a long press, it opens over whatever was on screen, and its numbers still have to be multiplied by something — the step a phone-only setup handles least well, and the gap the panel above fills.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
The shortest route, and its cost
The order ticket works out the required margin before anything is confirmed
Open a new order in the mobile terminal, set the volume, and the required margin appears in the ticket itself. The preview moves as the volume field is edited, which on a single handset saves keying the same figures anywhere else.
It answers with the account's own settings
The ticket applies the leverage in force on that trading account and the contract size of that symbol, so the preview is specific rather than illustrative.
It only answers one question
Required margin appears; pip value, the cost of the spread and the overnight swaps do not. Sizing a trade on cost as well as on margin needs the rest of the row.
A live confirm button sits under a thumb
A ticket left open while the arithmetic is thought through is a send action one accidental tap away. The panel above asks the same question with no order form involved.
The field the keyboard covers
A decimal point typed half-blind
Volume steps in 0.01, and on a handset the numeric keyboard takes the lower half of the display the moment the field is tapped: the figure being typed sits just above it, the result it feeds is behind it, and the decimal point is one key among several. This is where phone-only sizing goes wrong, and it goes wrong quietly.
On a USD account, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD is 1,000 units of the base currency — a position of about $1,143 at the measured mid rate of 1.14349. At 1:200 that asks about $5.72 of margin, one pip is worth about $0.10, and crossing the measured 0.8-pip spread costs about $0.08. Slip the decimal one place and the intended 0.01 lot arrives ten times larger: every figure in that row moves by the same factor while the screen still reads like a small trade.
Three things worth doing before the number is trusted
- Dismiss the keyboard before reading. Tap outside the field so nothing sits over the outputs, then read the margin line.
- Read the position size, not just the margin. Notional is where a slipped decimal shows up first, because it is the figure with the most digits in it.
- Screenshot the row before switching apps. One screen loses whatever was on it the moment something else opens; an image survives that.
Figures above are indicative, taken from spreads and contract specifications from Exness's own MT5 (Standard) feed. Spreads fluctuate and actual results will vary. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone; a demo account is the place to practise sizing with nothing at stake.
The detour nobody counts
Leaving the terminal for the phone's own calculator app
Multiplying a contract size by a volume is trivial arithmetic, and the phone has an app for it. The cost is not the arithmetic — it is that the terminal is backgrounded while it happens, and the quote on the screen when the app switcher opened is not the one waiting on the way back.
The panel here removes the detour rather than speeding it up: the multiplication, the division by the leverage ratio and the pip conversion all happen on the page, so the answer arrives without anything being closed.
One screen, one thing at a time
No second screen means the check runs in sequence
With a handset alone the ticket, the specification screen and the arithmetic take turns: each is opened, read and closed before the next appears. That is not a worse way of working, but it rewards deciding the order in advance.
An order that does not double back
Settle the instrument first, because it fixes contract size and tick value. Settle the volume second, because it scales everything. Read the leverage last, because it changes only the margin line and none of the cost lines. Reversing that means re-reading figures that were already correct.
What to carry between screens
Three numbers are enough to keep: required margin, pip value and spread cost. Written down or screenshotted, they survive the terminal being opened over this page.
The account and its leverage setting both live in the Personal Area, which opens in a phone browser. How the leverage setting behaves → · What each account type does to the cost line →
Quick answers
Asked from a handset-only setup
Is there anything on this page a phone cannot do?
No. The panel is part of the page, it works in a mobile browser, and every input is a field or a list. Nothing is downloaded and nothing has to be installed for the arithmetic to run.
Where does the mobile terminal show contract size and swaps?
On the Specification screen, reached by long-pressing the symbol in the quotes list. Contract size, tick value, minimum volume, volume step and swap long and short are all there, in both the MT4 and the MT5 mobile apps.
Why does the order ticket show a different margin?
The ticket applies the account's own leverage setting and a live quote; the panel here uses a dated snapshot and whatever ratio is typed in. Matching the two usually closes the gap.
How is a volume checked quickly before an order?
Set the instrument and the volume, read the position size line first, then the margin — a mis-typed decimal shows up in the length of the notional figure.
The arithmetic runs here; the account opens on the official door
A phone is enough for all of it. Registration is an email address and a short questionnaire on the official Exness website, identity verification happens in the Personal Area with the same handset that takes the photograph, and the leverage setting lives there too. The registration walkthrough, step by step →
Open Exness AccountThe button leaves this guide and opens the official exness.com through this site's partner route. Accounts, sign-in and support are handled there.