Route — Leverage on a handset
Exness leverage on a phone: four numbers, one alert, one ticket
Start with the risk: a larger position magnifies a loss exactly as it magnifies a gain, because both are counted on the whole position and not on the slice of money holding it open. On a phone that arithmetic never leaves the top strip of the terminal — four figures, two of which move all day. This page reads that strip, follows the warning that arrives as a notification rather than a pop-up on a monitor, and ends at the order ticket.
The top strip
Four numbers along the top of the terminal, and only two of them move
A mobile terminal has no room for a dashboard, so it prints the state of the account as one line above the positions. Everything the leverage setting does surfaces there, and reading it takes a second once the four labels mean something.
| WHAT IT COUNTS | WHILE A TRADE IS OPEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Balance | Money settled on the account, before anything currently open is counted | Sits still — it only updates when a position is finally closed |
| Equity | Balance plus whatever the open trades are showing at this second | Moves with every tick, in both directions |
| Free margin | What is left over after the collateral the open trades have locked up | Shrinks as equity falls; it is what a further trade would draw on |
| Margin level | Equity measured against the collateral in use, shown as a percentage | The one to watch — the thresholds described below are read off it |
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The leverage setting is not one of the four. It stands behind them: it decides how much collateral a chosen size locks up, which is why changing it shows up as a different free margin and a different margin level rather than as a number of its own. The ratio in force is printed beside the account inside the Personal Area, not on this screen.
Delivery, not display
The warning arrives as a notification, not as a dialog on a monitor
Two thresholds sit further down the margin level, and both were designed for someone sitting in front of a screen. On a handset they turn into something posted to the notification tray, which is a different problem entirely.
A margin call is the notice that equity has drifted down towards the collateral the open trades are holding. The stop out sits below it: the point where the platform itself begins unwinding positions rather than letting the account sink further. Neither is a penalty; both are the mechanical end of the arithmetic that made the position large.
On a desktop that warning appears in a window over whatever else was open. On a phone it competes with every other notification the handset receives, and it may arrive while the screen is dark or while the device lies face down on a table. Delivery is therefore part of the setup: the terminal has to be granted permission to post notifications, and that is easiest to do on the day the app is installed rather than during the session it is needed.
This is also the practical argument for a conservative size on a phone-only setup: a notification seen late is the same as no notification at all, and the margin level does not pause while the handset is in a pocket.
Three checks worth making once
Notifications enabled for the terminal app in the phone's settings, sound or vibration attached to them, and a look at how they render on the lock screen — a preview that hides its own text is not much of a warning.
None of this changes the thresholds; it decides whether they are heard in time.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
Low stop out level
More flexibility and fewer stop outs, allowing traders to ride out short-term volatility.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
The Android habit
Battery optimisation decides whether the alert is ever delivered
Permission granted is not the same as message received. Android keeps battery life by putting backgrounded apps to sleep, and an app that has been put to sleep is not listening for anything. Three settings screens close that gap.
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Find the terminal in the phone's battery settings
The list of installed apps sits under the battery or power section of the handset's own settings — not inside the trading app. Every terminal used for an account belongs on it: the mobile MetaTrader app, the Exness Trade app, or both if a real and a demo account run side by side.
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Take it off the optimised list
The wording differs by handset — unrestricted, allowed in background, exempt from optimisation — but the effect is the same: the app keeps its connection while the screen is off instead of being suspended after a few minutes. This is the setting that turns a permission into an actual delivery.
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Test it before it matters
Lock the phone with a small position open on a demo account and see whether anything arrives. A dry run on virtual funds costs nothing and is where to discover that a handset has been quietly silencing a terminal. How to open a demo →
Even with all three done, a notification is a courtesy rather than a control. The account's protection is the size chosen at the ticket, and the thresholds run whether or not anybody is reading the screen.
One screen at a time
The header cannot be watched while the ticket is open
A second monitor is what lets a desk trader keep the account strip in view while a size is typed somewhere else. A handset has no second anything. Opening the order ticket covers the four numbers, and closing it to check them loses the ticket — so the sequence has to be decided rather than improvised.
So the strip is read from memory. One figure is worth carrying into the ticket and one only: the free margin standing there before anything is opened. A size that starts to look uncomfortable beside that remembered number is a size to reduce before confirming rather than after. Working out exactly what a given size ties up is a separate job with a page of its own. Run it on the calculator on this site →
A workable order on one screen
Read the strip first and hold the free margin in mind. Open the ticket second. Confirm third — or step back to the strip and look again before anything is sent.
Reversing that order is what produces the classic phone mistake: a confirmed position, then a look at the strip, then the discovery that the margin level has moved somewhere it was never meant to go.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
While nobody is looking
The thresholds run on a phone that is face down on a table
The one belief worth dismantling before a position is left open on a handset is that the terminal is doing the watching. It is not: it is a viewer. Everything described above happens on the broker's side, on its own schedule, whether or not any screen anywhere is switched on.
What the handset does and does not decide
- Closing the app changes nothing. The position, the collateral behind it and the margin level are held with the account. A terminal that has been swiped out of the app switcher is not a position that has been closed.
- A dead battery changes nothing either. The stop out level is reached by the market, not by the device, and it is reached at the same moment on a phone that is charging and a phone that is off.
- The only thing the handset controls is whether it is heard. Permission, battery exemption, sound — those three decide whether the notice arrives while there is still a decision left to make.
- A position that needs watching hourly is the wrong size for a pocket. That is the practical form the whole page takes: on a phone-only setup, size is chosen for the attention that is actually available, not for the attention a desk would allow.
The leverage setting itself is not edited from the terminal — it is edited for the whole trading account, on the account's own page inside the Personal Area on exness.com, and every account keeps its own. Signing in from the same handset is described in the login guide; which arrangement each account type carries is on the account types page. Ceilings are the broker's to set and are not permanent.
Quick answers
Leverage from a handset with no computer behind it — questions that come up most
Where is the leverage setting changed when there is no computer in the setup?
In the Personal Area on the official exness.com, opened in the phone's browser after signing in. The setting belongs to a trading account rather than to a person, so it is opened from that account's own settings, which is where both the ratio in force and the ceiling that account may reach are displayed. A handset reaches every part of that screen; nothing in the sequence needs a desktop.
Is the maximum lower because the account is traded from a phone?
No. What the device is has no bearing on it. The maximum on offer follows what is being traded, the region the account was opened under, and the money behind it, and whatever applies to one particular account is printed on its line in the account list. The caps in force are published by Exness on its own website; a ratio borrowed from someone else's screenshot proves nothing about this account.
Which of the four numbers should be watched while a trade is open?
Margin level — equity measured against the collateral in use, shown as a percentage. Balance sits still until a position is closed and tells nothing about the present; equity and free margin move but need a reference point to be meaningful. Margin level is that reference point, and both thresholds further down are read off it.
Will a margin call actually reach a phone that is locked?
Only if the handset lets it. Notification permission for the terminal has to be granted, and on Android the app also has to be exempt from battery optimisation, or the system suspends it in the background and there is nothing left to raise the alarm. Both are settings of the phone, not of the trading account, and both are worth testing on a demo before they are relied on.
Does lowering the setting change what a trade earns or loses?
Not by itself. Profit and loss are counted on the position in full, so the result of one particular trade is the same whatever ratio stands behind it. What changes is how much collateral the trade locks up — a smaller ratio holds back more of the account for an identical size, which leaves less free margin and, in practice, encourages smaller positions.
What happens at the stop out level?
The platform begins closing open positions automatically, so the account is not carried further down than the equity behind it can support. Exness maintains a low stop out level — more flexibility and fewer stop outs, allowing traders to ride out short-term volatility. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone. The threshold itself is read off margin level, which is why that percentage is the one to keep an eye on.
Can a different setting be tried before a real account is touched?
Yes. A demo account carries a leverage setting of its own and runs on the same prices with virtual funds, which makes it the right place to watch how a given ratio behaves on a small screen — including whether the phone delivers the warnings at all. The strip along the top reads exactly the same way there.
The setting was changed but the terminal on the phone still shows the old value.
A mobile terminal reads the value when it connects, so an app that has been sitting in the background — quite possibly suspended by the same battery optimisation described above — is showing what it was told last time. Signing in again brings the current figure across. Checking the margin level straight after any change is the safe habit either way.
Everything above is reachable from the handset itself
Signing up on the official Exness website is short: a mailbox that can be reached, a brief questionnaire, and identity verification inside the Personal Area afterwards. Every trading account created there turns up with a ratio of its own and its ceiling printed alongside, and a phone browser reaches all of it. Full registration walkthrough → The ratio follows the account onto any of the four platforms and none of them owns it — see the platform matrix.
Open Exness AccountThe button takes the partner route from this site out to exness.com. Registration, the account list, the ratio field and every support channel sit on that side.