When should I use the PIP calculator?

Use the pip calculator anytime you don’t know the pip value. Unless your account currency is the same as the second currency in the pair, the pip value can change over time, so always calculate the pip value for those trades. I like to risk a fixed percentage of my account on each trade, such as 1%.

What is the pip value of USD/AUD?

If you are trading the USD/AUD and your account is AUD, the pip value is AUD10 (NOT USD) for a standard lot (100,000 units). When our account currency is different than the quote currency in the pair, 10 in the quote currency needs to be converted to our own account currency. This means the pip value will be different than 10.

How does AXI Pip calculator work?

How does our pip calculator work? To calculate the value of a pip, the Axi pip calculator multiplies one pip (usually 0.0001) by the trade size (in lots), and dividing this by the real-time market rate of forex pair. The pip size is 1, that is, one pip is one AUD of the AUS200 price.

How do you calculate Pip in forex?

Here's how... In most forex currency pairs, one pip is on the 4th decimal place of the Forex pair (0.0001), meaning it's equivalent to 1/100 of 1%. For JPY pairs, one pip is on the 2nd decimal place of the Forex pair, so the second digit after the decimal point is the pip.