Exness margin figures, order tickets and the record a terminal keeps: one reference page

A standard trade size, and the unit the volume box expects. It is a count of contracts, not a sum of money: everything else on the ticket follows from it, which is why the figure is settled before the window is opened rather than adjusted inside it. Turning a figure into a volume →

No, and this is the classic first misreading. The same number typed against two different instruments commits two very different sums, because what a contract represents belongs to the instrument. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.

Two levels attached to the position rather than to the window: one names where it is to be closed at a loss, the other where it is to be closed at a profit. Both are held with the account on the broker’s side. Neither box guarantees the price it names when a market is moving quickly. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.

Yes — modifying a position sends only the levels, not a new order, so nothing is opened or closed by the act of editing them. Leaving both boxes empty is equally allowed, and equally a decision.

The portion of the account the broker sets aside while a position is open. Its size follows the instrument, the volume and the leverage in force, and it is worked out at the moment the position is opened.

It is not. Nothing is spent by it and nobody receives it; the amount is held, and it returns to the free part of the account the moment the position it belongs to is closed. Charges are a separate matter and belong with the account type. What each type charges →

Neither. Balance counts the account with nothing open; equity is that balance with the running result of everything currently open added to it or taken from it. With no positions the two are identical, and the moment one is opened they part company and keep moving.

Equity minus whatever is being held as required margin — the part still available for something else. It is the figure worth glancing at rather than the balance, because it is the one that answers whether anything more can be opened at all.

Because equity moved. An open position drifting against the account lowers equity from one tick to the next, and free margin follows it down without any instruction being sent. The held portion has not grown; the part left over has shrunk.

It does, because it has already been counted in equity, and free margin is worked out from equity. A position running in the account’s favour therefore widens the room for another one before it has been closed at all — which is a fact worth knowing and a poor reason to act on. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.

Equity written as a percentage of the margin being held — the one number that summarises this entire section. A large percentage means the open positions are small next to the account behind them; as it falls, the account approaches the two thresholds below.

The warning stage. The margin level has fallen to the first threshold the broker has named, and the platform says so. Nothing is closed by it: it is an instruction addressed to the reader, not to the account.

The stage after the warning, at which the platform itself starts closing open positions rather than letting the account fall further. Both thresholds are published by the broker with the account terms and are not the same for every account type. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.

Not necessarily. The mechanism closes what it needs to in order to lift the margin level back above the threshold, and what it closed and when is written into the platform’s own record — which is the honest version of the event, and better read than reconstructed from memory.

How much margin a given volume ties up, and therefore how much can be held open with the same money. It changes nothing about what a price move is worth: results are worked out on the whole position either way. How much is put at risk on a single trade matters more than the maximum on offer. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.

In two places, side by side at the bottom of the window. One holds the deals: what was opened, what was closed, at which prices and at which times. The other is the platform’s own log of its actions — instructions sent, answers received, sessions started and dropped.

The positions list holds what exists right now and keeps moving; the history holds what has finished and never changes again. Anything that has stopped being a question about the future has moved from the first to the second.

An identifier the broker gives each order and each deal when it is accepted. It belongs to that one event, it is unique, and it is what turns “something odd happened on Tuesday” into an event somebody can actually look up.

Because the number resolves to exactly one record on the broker’s side, while a description resolves to a conversation. It is also the cheapest thing to send over a bad line: a short line of digits typed once, against a screenshot that may not go through at all.

Both. Each finished deal carries its own columns alongside the prices, so what a position cost to hold and what was taken at the point of dealing are read from the line itself rather than worked out afterwards. Which of those columns is populated depends on the account type.

The attempts. An instruction that was sent and answered with a refusal leaves nothing in the deal history, because no deal happened — but the log has the moment, the instruction and the answer. It is where a session that felt chaotic turns back into a sequence.

An order is the instruction; a deal is what came of it. One instruction can produce more than one deal, and an instruction that produced none at all is still an order and still recorded. Reading the two columns as one list is where most confusion about a busy session comes from.

As several lines rather than one, each with its own size, its own price and its own moment. Nothing merges them afterwards, so a position taken off in three pieces is three entries that add up rather than a single averaged one.

No. It is written on the broker’s side as events happen, and nothing on the reader’s side rewrites it. A short note can be attached to an instruction at the moment it is sent, and that note travels into the record with it — which is the only writing anyone does here, and it has to be done in advance.

It does. A line closed because a level attached to it was reached is marked as such, and so is one closed by the platform to lift a margin level. That mark is the difference between a decision and a consequence, and it is written down at the time rather than remembered afterwards.

As far as the period asked for. The history tab is a window onto the record rather than the record itself, and widening the dates does not fetch a different account — it simply stops hiding the earlier part of the same one.

The terminal will assemble a report from what it holds, and the Personal Area on the official exness.com holds the broker’s own version. Where the two are ever read differently, the broker’s record is the account and the terminal’s is a display of it.