Calculate Gold Trading Leverage Examples

How XAUUSD Trading Leverage Increases Gold Trading Profits & Loses?

If you have a 1,000 dollar gold trading account with gold leverage 100:1 you can buy upto a maximum trading contracts lots which are equal to 100,000 dollars Gold Trading contract lots

If you have a 1,000 dollar gold trading account with gold trading leverage 100:1 you can buy Gold contract lot which are equivalent to 100,000 dollars

If you have a 1,000 dollar gold trading account with gold trading leverage 50:1 you can buy Gold contract lots which are equivalent to 50,000 dollars

If you have a 1,000 dollar gold trading account with gold trading leverage 20:1 you can buy Gold contract lots that are equal to 20,000 dollars

From the above Gold Leverage for Beginner Traders example you can see that the more gold trading leverage that you use the more the profit or loss and the less leverage you use the lesser the profit or losses.

It is therefore better to use less gold trading leverage in order to minimize the risks involved. The higher the gold leverage used the higher the risk. This is one of the gold trading leverage rules not to trade with more than 5:1 xauusd trading leverage.

In gold trading leverage rules: It is always advisable to stay below 10:1 which is still high, most professional money managers use 2:1 meaning they trade only 2 lots for every $100,000 in their gold trading account.

How to Change XAUUSD Leverage in MT4 Platform

How to Change Gold Leverage in MetaTrader 4 - To change gold trading leverage that you are using on your MT4 platform you will have to go to your Secure My Account area on your gold broker website, log in to this My Account Area & after login in navigate to the change leverage option for your MetaTrader 4 xauusd account - then select new gold leverage you want for your xauusd trading account and then confirm the new gold leverage option & your gold leverage will be changed to the new gold leverage option that you have just selected.