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MT5 Gold Margin Calculator Formula

Inquiries addressed include: what constitutes Gold Margin within MT5 software, the definition of XAUUSD Gold Margin, the necessary minimum XAU USD Margin required, the concept of Gold Equity, the amount of Used XAU USD Margin, and calculating Free XAUUSD margin.

Gold Margin, Required XAUUSD Trading Margin, Equity, Used XAUUSD Margin and Free Trading Margin

What is the required margin for gold? It is the cash amount your broker demands to start a gold trade. Brokers list it as a percent.

XAUUSD equity means your full account balance.

What Funds Are Committed to Used Gold? : The Used Gold Margin refers to the capital within your account that has already been allocated for establishing a trade position: specifically, the XAUUSD contract visible in your open transactions. As the trader, this specific sum becomes inaccessible for opening or executing any subsequent trades since it is already deployed.

Your broker opens positions with borrowed money from your deposit. You must hold that margin as security to keep using the borrowed amount.

What is XAUUSD Free Margin? : XAUUSD Free Margin is the amount of money on your trading account that you can use to open/execute new positions. Free Margin is the amount of money on your trading account which hasn't yet been leveraged because you have not yet opened a trades with this equity - this Free Margin is also very key for you because it enables you as a trader to continue holding your open positions as is explained below.

Example of What is Gold Margin on MT5 XAUUSD Trading

In the MT5 example about margin below, the leverage selected is 100:1, and the margin, which equals 1 %, comes to $2683.07 - therefore, the total sum managed by the Gold trader amounts to $268,307 - this happens because with this leverage, the trader has used only a little of their personal funds and borrowed the rest from a gold broker, with this gold leverage fixed at 100:1, a gold trader is using 1 % of their funds, this 1 percent equals $2683.07 - if 1% is $2683.07, then 100% comes to $268,307

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Free Margin - $13,433.48

Free Margin that can be used by a trader to open new trade positions in MT5 software just as is shown and shown on the example illustration revealed above.

Used Gold Margin - $2683.07

XAU/USD Margin that has been already used up by trader to open trades in MT5 software as shown and shown on the example illustration revealed above.

To learn more about Leverage and XAUUSD Margin - Please read the tutorials explained below:

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