Margin Calculator
See exactly what a position ties up at your leverage, before you place it.
What the position ties up
Enter the instrument, the size and your leverage. The margin appears in your account currency, alongside the full value of the position behind it.
Margin is held, not spent
It is the part of your balance the platform sets aside while a position is open, and it comes back the moment you close.
Leverage sets the fraction
At 1:500 a position ties up 0.2% of its value. At 1:30 it ties up 3.33%. The position is the same size either way.
Free margin is the buffer
What is left after margin is what absorbs a losing trade. Commit too much of it and an ordinary move becomes a margin call.
- EUR/USD
- GBP/USD
- USD/JPY
- USD/CHF
- USD/CAD
- AUD/USD
- NZD/USD
- EUR/GBP
- EUR/JPY
- GBP/JPY
- AUD/JPY
- EUR/CHF
- XAU/USD
- XAG/USD
- WTI/USD
- US30
- US500
- GER40
One lot is 100,000 EUR.
Seeded with a recent level — use the live price on your platform.
- 1:1
- 1:5
- 1:10
- 1:20
- 1:30
- 1:50
- 1:100
- 1:200
- 1:300
- 1:400
- 1:500
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- JPY
- CHF
- AUD
- CAD
Leverage cuts both ways
A small margin requirement is what makes a large position possible. It is also what makes the loss on that position larger than the deposit behind it.
Margin is not your risk
It tells you what a position costs to hold, not what it can cost you. Profit and loss are calculated on the full position size, so a 1% move against a fully leveraged trade takes far more than 1% of the margin behind it.
Margin call, then stop out
As losses eat into equity, the platform warns you first and closes positions second. Both are avoidable by leaving free margin on the account rather than deploying all of it.
Treat the maximum as a ceiling
DMA Capitals offers up to 1:500 across all three account types. Most traders who last use a fraction of what is available — the leverage is there to free up capital, not to be spent in full.
Leverage up to 1:500 across Standard, Executive and Corporate accounts — from a $10 minimum deposit.