David Waring

__________________
InformedTrades University | IT Shopping Guide | Site Map


Disclaimer: Trading is risky and can result in substantial financial loss. As always my posts are simply one traders opinion and should not be taken as trading advice. I am not a financial adviser so everyone please do their own analysis and take responsibility for their own trades.

Thank

 

Antomi

Hi David,

I have a question that sounds simple but I was not able to find a good answer to it. Maybe you can help me.

In the terminal view (Metatrader) all the data for the open positions are shown.
In the last line the Balance, Equity, Margin, FreeMargin and MarginLevel are shown.
See the image.

My question is now, how the Margin value is calculated ?
I tried to find an answer by experimenting, but failed.

Best regards

Antomi

Attached Thumbnails

 

Thank

 

Shaun Overton

Antomi,

Your broker determines the margin requirements for a trade. Most mini accounts, for example, require 0.5% margin.

If you traded 1 mini lot of USD/JPY, this means you're trading $10,000. 0.5% of $10,000 is $50. Thus, your margin requirement is $50.

__________________
Shaun Overton
Expert Advisor Programming
OneStepRemoved.com

Thank

 

Antomi

Shaun,
Thank you for the info.
I receved also an additional information:

Margin is the amount of funds required to be held on an open position. It is calculated as amount of base currency divided by leverage. 1 lot = 100,000 units of base currency, 0.1 lot = 10,000 units of base currency, 0.01 = 1,000 units of base currency. Base currency is the first currency in the pair.

Example:

A trade of 1 lot on the GBP/USD with a leverage of 1:500
1 lot = 100000 units of base currency, so in this case £100000
100000 / 500 = 200
The margin required for this trade is £200

Regards

Antomi

Thank

 

Shaun Overton

Antomi,

Thanks for posting that for everyone. It's another common way to discuss margin that confuses everyone.

200:1, for example, is the same thing as 0.5% margin.
500:1 is the same as 0.2% margin.

__________________
Shaun Overton
Expert Advisor Programming
OneStepRemoved.com

Thank

 

nandradev

[Hello, I watched a video on youtube about install mt4 indicators, and I got one question, I was looking for one indicator, but I could only find its code, how can I do to turn this code into an indicator? sorry for this question, I'm a beginner in this mt4 stuff, thank you.

Just in case, this is the code I found:

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| OsMA.mq4 |
//| Copyright © 2004, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |
//| Forex Trading Software: Forex Trading Platform MetaTrader 4 |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property copyright "colour update by thor@gmx.co.uk, Moneytec chat: thorr"
//---- indicator settings
#property indicator_separate_window
#property indicator_buffers 4
#property indicator_color1 Maroon
#property indicator_color2 DarkGreen
#property indicator_color3 Lime
#property indicator_color4 OrangeRed
//---- indicator parameters
extern int FastEMA=8;
extern int SlowEMA=12;
extern int SignalSMA=9;
extern double thresh = 0.0001;
//---- indicator buffers
double ind_buffer0[];
double ind_buffer1[];
double ind_buffer2[];
double ind_buffer3[];
double ind_brighthi[];
double ind_brightlo[];
double res;
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Custom indicator initialization function |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int init()
{
//---- 2 additional buffers are used for counting.
IndicatorBuffers(6);
//---- drawing settings
SetIndexStyle(0,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,2);
SetIndexStyle(1,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,2);
SetIndexStyle(2,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,2);
SetIndexStyle(3,DRAW_HISTOGRAM,STYLE_SOLID,2);
SetIndexDrawBegin(0,SignalSMA);
SetIndexDrawBegin(1,SignalSMA);
SetIndexDrawBegin(2,SignalSMA);
SetIndexDrawBegin(3,SignalSMA);
IndicatorDigits(MarketInfo(Symbol(),MODE_DIGITS)+2 );
//---- 4 indicator buffers mapping
if(!SetIndexBuffer(0,ind_buffer0) &&
!SetIndexBuffer(1,ind_buffer1) &&
!SetIndexBuffer(2,ind_brighthi) &&
!SetIndexBuffer(3,ind_brightlo) &&
!SetIndexBuffer(4,ind_buffer2) &&
!SetIndexBuffer(5,ind_buffer3))
Print("cannot set indicator buffers!");
//---- name for DataWindow and indicator subwindow label
IndicatorShortName("RainbowOsMA("+FastEMA+","+Slow EMA+","+SignalSMA+")");
//---- initialization done
return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Moving Average of Oscillator |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start()
{
int limit;
int counted_bars=IndicatorCounted();
//---- check for possible errors
if(counted_bars<0) return(-1);
//---- last counted bar will be recounted
if(counted_bars>0) counted_bars--;
limit=Bars-counted_bars;
//---- macd counted in the 1-st additional buffer
for(int i=0; i<limit; i++)
ind_buffer3[i]=iMA(NULL,0,FastEMA,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i)-iMA(NULL,0,SlowEMA,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE,i);
//---- signal line counted in the 2-nd additional buffer
for(i=0; i<limit; i++)
ind_buffer2[i]=iMAOnArray(ind_buffer3,Bars,SignalSMA,0,MODE_SMA, i);
//---- main loop
for(i=limit-1; i>=0; i--)
{
res = ind_buffer3[i] - ind_buffer2[i];

// Sort it out now...
if (res < thresh && res > 0) {
ind_buffer1[i] = res;
ind_brighthi[i] = 0;
continue;
} else if (res > 0) {
ind_brighthi[i] = res;
ind_buffer1[i] = 0;
} else if (res > -thresh && res < 0) {
ind_brightlo[i] = 0;
ind_buffer0[i] = res;
continue;
} else if (res < 0)
ind_brightlo[i] = res;
ind_buffer0[i] = 0;
}
return(0);

Thank