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Exness Lot Size Calculator — Sizing a Balance to Outlast a Losing Run (Uganda)

Position sizing is survival arithmetic rather than a single sum. The volume returned here is the one that keeps a single losing ticket inside an amount that can be lost without changing behaviour; the real test is the run of five or six stops that every method eventually meets. Sizing from a percentage shrinks each following ticket automatically, so a streak erodes the balance instead of ending it, while a fixed lot size does the opposite.

A lot size calculator answers one question — how many lots — but the answer only matters in the plural. Enter the account balance, the amount a single ticket may cost and the stop-loss in pips, and the volume comes back; what decides an account is what that volume does across ten tickets, not one. Pro mode sizes in the account currency, checks the margin the size needs and sets the stop from the measured average daily range of the instrument; Simple returns the quick lots-from-risk figure.

Avg daily range (measured):
Position size
Amount at risk
Margin required
Risk % of account
Pip value
Notional
Stop vs ADR
Units
Free margin

Position size, margin and the measured average daily range come from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.

How many stops in a row can a $1,000 balance absorb at 2% a ticket?

Two per cent of a $1,000 balance is $20 on the ticket, and with a 30-pip stop on EUR/USD, where one pip per lot is worth about $10.00 at measured specs, that comes to about 0.07 lots — around 7,000 units, holding about $39.78 of margin at 1:200 leverage. Six stops in a row at that rule leave roughly $886, because each 2% is taken from a balance that has already shrunk.

Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). A risk cap held in shillings converts at the day exchange rate before it becomes a lot size, so the cap itself moves with the rate.

Frequently asked questions

Why does a wider stop shrink the position instead of raising the risk?
Because the money at risk is fixed first and the volume is what bends. Lots equal the risk amount divided by the stop in pips times the pip value, so doubling the stop halves the size and leaves the amount at risk exactly where it was. Holding the lots fixed instead would double the loss. Figures are indicative.
Does the arithmetic change when the cap is thought of in shillings?
No — the sizing formula is currency-agnostic. Pro mode sizes directly in EUR or GBP at the measured mid rate, and a cap set in shillings converts to the account currency at the day exchange rate before it becomes lots, so the converted cap is indicative and drifts as the rate does.
How much of a balance should a single ticket be allowed to cost?
That is a risk tolerance decision rather than a platform setting — the calculator takes whatever percentage or amount is entered. What the arithmetic does say is that the figure compounds: six stops at 2% of a falling balance leave about 88.6% of it, and ten leave about 81.7%.
Is it better to size from a percentage or from a fixed amount?
A percentage shrinks the next ticket after a loss and grows it after a win, so a run erodes the balance rather than ending it. A fixed amount does neither, which makes it steadier on a stable balance and heavier on a falling one. Both inputs are accepted here.
What does it mean when the calculator returns less than the smallest volume?
It means the combination of balance, risk percentage and stop distance is asking for a position smaller than the platform accepts. Rounding up breaks the rule that produced the number; the alternatives are a tighter stop, a larger risk allowance, or an instrument whose pip is worth less per lot.
Should the margin figure change the size?
It should cap it. A size that satisfies the risk rule still has to leave a usable free-margin buffer, and Pro mode reports both. When the buffer is thin the size comes down — moving the stop closer to keep the volume trades the plan away for the position.
Does a wider stop mean more risk?
Not if the volume is read back. The whole point of sizing from risk is that a wider stop returns a smaller position for the same money at risk. Risk rises only when the stop widens and the volume is left where it was.
How does a daily loss cap fit with per-ticket sizing?
They work on different scales. Per-ticket sizing bounds one trade; a daily or weekly cap bounds how many trades a bad run is allowed to contain. Without the second, per-ticket discipline can still be applied ten times in one afternoon.

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What a losing run does to a balance

Sizing from a percentage is self-correcting: each stop lowers the balance, the next ticket is measured against the smaller number, and the loss per trade tapers instead of holding steady. Six stops at 2% leave about 88.6% of the balance rather than 88%, because the base keeps moving underneath the rule.

Fixed lots do not taper. The same volume against a shrinking balance is a rising percentage of it, which is how a run of ordinary stops becomes a hole that needs an unusual win to fill. Recovery is not symmetric either: a balance down 20% needs 25% on what is left to return to par, and down 50% it needs 100%.

The remedy is a second cap sitting above the per-ticket one. A limit on what a day or a week may cost — three stops and the terminal closes, for instance — bounds the streak before the per-ticket figure has to. This calculator sizes the ticket; the cap decides how many tickets there are.

The volume step and what falls off the end

Volume moves in steps, and the size returned here almost never lands on one exactly. Rounding down keeps the money at risk at or below the number entered; rounding up puts it above, which on a modest balance is the difference between the plan and something slightly braver than the plan.

On a small balance the step also sets a floor. Below a certain combination of balance, risk percentage and stop distance the arithmetic asks for less than the smallest tradeable volume, and the honest answers are a wider risk allowance, a tighter stop or an instrument whose pip is worth less per lot — not a rounded-up figure.

Margin is the other constraint. A size that fits the risk rule still has to fit the account: Pro mode reports the margin the volume needs and the free margin left behind, and a plan that leaves almost no buffer is one adverse move away from being closed for you rather than by you.

A risk budget shaped by the local day

Screen time is not evenly available. On East Africa Time — UTC+3, unchanged through the year — the London open falls late in the morning and the overlap with New York runs through the afternoon, so anyone working through those hours gets one usable block a day rather than a rolling market.

A single block argues for fewer tickets with honest stops rather than many small ones, and for fixing the whole day budget before the block starts. Deciding in advance that the session may cost two stops is a different discipline from deciding it after the second stop has already landed.

The stop-versus-range line belongs to the same decision: Pro mode compares the stop against the measured average daily range of the instrument, and a stop far inside a single day of typical movement will be reached by noise however neatly it sizes. The measured range table gives the reference.

Sizing a ticket in four moves

  1. Decide what one ticket may cost as a percentage of the balance, and write it down before opening a chart.
  2. Set the stop from the chart, then check it against the measured average daily range in Pro mode.
  3. Read the volume the calculator returns and round it down to the nearest step, never up.
  4. Check the margin required and the free margin left; when the buffer is thin, cut the size rather than the stop.

A cap on how many losing tickets a session may contain sits above all four — the calculator sizes one ticket, not a day.

What a run of stops leaves behind

Stops in a rowAt 2% of a falling balanceIf 2% of the starting balance were used
198.0% of the balance98%
394.1%94%
688.6%88%
1081.7%80%

Arithmetic on the risk rule alone, not a statement about outcomes: 0.98 to the power of 10 is 81.7%.

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