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The one-minute check

Your first trade: five figures to recompute before confirming — Pakistan

The gap between a plan and an order is a confirmation screen, and it prints everything needed to catch an arithmetic error while it is still free to catch. This page is that check, in the order the screen presents it.

Read five lines: the symbol, the size, the two live quotes, the amount that will be fenced off, and the distance to the stop expressed in money. Each has a sum behind it that takes seconds to redo in your head. If one disagrees with your sheet, the cause is a constant, not the platform — and cancelling costs nothing.

The check, line by line

  1. The symbol is the one you measured on

    Sounds trivial and is the single cheapest check on the list: a stop distance measured on one pair and placed on another produces a correct-looking ticket with a wrong money value behind every figure.

  2. The size matches what the division returned

    Not rounded up, not typed by habit. If the calculated answer was 0.007 lots and the field says 0.01, the trade is now risking more than the amount you wrote down — quietly, and by nearly half again.

  3. The two quotes, subtracted

    Their difference is the spread in points. Multiply by money per point at your size to see it as money. This is the head start the position begins with, and it is paid whether the idea works or not.

  4. The reservation

    Size × units per lot × price ÷ leverage. Compare with what the ticket says will be held aside. A mismatch by a factor means the leverage figure or the units figure is wrong in your sheet.

  5. The stop, in money

    Distance in points × money per point × size. It should equal the amount you agreed to lose. If it does not, one of the two decisions above it has drifted since you wrote them down.

A minute, five lines, and the only figure left unverified is the one no arithmetic reaches: whether to place the order at all.

What a mismatch usually means

What disagreesMost likely inputWhere to re-read it
Reservation out by a factorLeverage figure or units per lotAccount details; symbol specification
Stop value ten times offPoints counted as pipsThe counting page
Everything slightly offA conversion into the account currencyThe currency on the right of the pair
Size refusedBelow the smallest accepted, or off the stepSymbol specification
Spread wider than expectedThe moment, not a constantThe two quotes, right now

After the click: which figures start moving

Four things are written down permanently — symbol, direction, size, fill price. Three keep changing: the running result, the reservation as the price moves, and the free part of the balance underneath it. If a position stays open past the daily rollover, a fourth appears: the overnight line for that symbol and side, added to the account rather than to the position's price.

Knowing which half a number belongs to answers most «why did this change» questions without opening a support chat. The rest are covered on the page about which figure a desk can confirm.

What the check cannot catch

  • A badly placed stop. The arithmetic will confirm the money value of a distance that should never have been chosen.
  • A fill away from the level. In fast conditions an exit can happen past where it was placed, and the loss is then larger than the sum said.
  • An idea that is simply wrong. Five verified figures do not make a trade sensible.
  • The outcome. Trading carries a high risk of losing money, and nobody can promise a profit.
Should the check be done every time or only at the start?

Lines 1, 2 and 5 every time. Lines 3 and 4 whenever the symbol, the size or the account changes.

The spread moved between checking and clicking. Recompute?

Only the cost line. Size and stop were fixed by decisions taken before the quote moved.

Is the reservation deducted from my money?

It is held aside rather than spent, and it returns to the free part of the balance when the position closes.

Why is my stop value not exactly the amount I planned?

Rounding the size down to the accepted step makes it slightly smaller. Rounding up would make it larger — which is why down is the safer direction.

Does direction change any of the five figures?

Only the sign of the result and which overnight line applies. Size, reservation and money per point are identical.

Can this be rehearsed without money?

Yes — the same confirmation screen appears on a free demo, with the same computed figures.

What if the ticket refuses the size entirely?

Either it is under the smallest accepted, off the step, or the free balance will not cover the reservation. All three are readable before confirming.

Which line is worth writing down after the trade closes?

The difference between the planned stop value and what actually happened. That gap is the only honest record of how well the sums travelled.

Where the five figures come from

Line 2

The division that produced the size in the first place.

See the sizing

Lines 3 and 5

Counting points, then pricing them at your size.

Measure a distance

Line 4

Which term the account swaps in the reservation.

See the terms

Run the whole check on a ticket that costs nothing.

A free demo shows the same confirmation screen on virtual money, with no time limit.

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