Margin Required Calculator

Margin is the amount of funds your broker requires you to have in your account to open and maintain a position. It acts as a good faith deposit — not a cost — and is returned to your free balance when the trade is closed.

Leverage and margin are two sides of the same concept. Leverage expresses the ratio between your position size and the margin required. At 1:100 leverage, you need 1% of the position value as margin. At 1:10 leverage, you need 10%. Higher leverage means lower margin requirements.

Yes. Different asset classes have different margin requirements. Forex pairs typically allow higher leverage and therefore require less margin, while crypto and indices often have stricter requirements. Funded7’s margin calculator accounts for these differences across all supported instruments.

If your account equity drops below the required margin level, a margin call occurs and your broker may automatically close your positions. This is why calculating margin before entering a trade is an important part of risk management.

No. Margin is a deposit, not your risk amount. Your actual risk depends on where you place your stop loss. A position can lose more or less than the margin depending on how the market moves before the trade is closed.

The margin is always calculated in your account currency. When your account currency differs from the base currency of the instrument you are trading, a live exchange rate conversion is applied. This is why the same position can show a different margin amount in USD versus JPY.

For crypto and commodity instruments, the price of the asset in USD is used directly in the calculation rather than a currency pair exchange rate. The calculator applies the current market price to determine the position value and then divides by your chosen leverage to arrive at the required margin.