10000$ or 10000 cents: standard and cent accounts in your terminal

Many beginning traders are lost in a choice of accounts provided by a broker. They stare into the monitor with glazed eyes, trying to understand all the subtleties of opening a mini, micro, super, duper and so on accounts...

Let's make it easier for beginners and clarify the difference between a classic or standard account and a cent account.

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Classic or standard account

Account parameters:

  • The balance of the deposit is displayed in dollars
  • Minimum lot is 0.01 of the standard
  • The value of one pip at a minimum lot of 0.01 is 10 cents for a four-digit quote and 1 cent for a five-digit quote
Fig. 1. Example of an open trade on a standard account with the minimum trading lot.
Fig. 1. Example of an open trade on a standard account with the minimum trading lot.

Cents account

Account parameters:

  • Balance Deposits is displayed in cents. That is, a deposit of $100 would look like 10000c.
  • The minimum lot is 0.01 of the standard lot
  • Due to the fact that the deposit is displayed in cents, the value of one pip at a minimum lot of 0.01 will be 1 cent for a four-digit quote and 0.1 cent for a five-digit quote.
Fig. 2. Example of an open trade on the cent account with the minimum trading lot.
Fig. 2. Example of an open trade on the cent account with the minimum trading lot.

Accordingly, using a lot of the same size on different types of accounts carries different levels of risk.

Important: four- and five-digit quotes

Note that the price of one pip, indicating the minimum price change, is not the same when opening an account with four- and five-digit quotes. There is no difficulty in this, as a four-digit quote of 1.2895 corresponds to a five-digit quote of 1.28950.

In order to avoid misunderstandings, books, recommendations, tutorials, and other literature, it is customary to indicate all values for four-digit quotes.

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