Know how much of your account a gold trade will tie up before you place it. Enter the lot size, the current gold price and your broker’s leverage — the calculator shows the margin required and the full position value.
Margin = lots × 100 oz × price ÷ leverage. Margin is what the broker locks up — it is not your risk on the trade; your stop-loss decides that.
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Margin = (lot size × 100 oz × gold price) ÷ leverage. Example: 1 lot at $2,400 with 1:100 leverage = (1 × 100 × 2,400) ÷ 100 = $2,400 of margin.
It depends on leverage. At 1:100 and a $2,400 gold price, 1 lot needs about $2,400 of margin; at 1:500 it needs about $480. But margin is not risk — you should also have enough balance to absorb the stop-loss comfortably.
If losses push your free margin to zero your broker issues a margin call and can close positions automatically. Keeping margin usage low — well under 30% of your balance — is one of the simplest ways to survive volatile gold sessions.