Exness Trading Calculator — Entry Cost and Overnight Cost (Uganda)

A ticket is paid for twice: once on entry, where the spread of that hour sets the bill, and once for every night it is held, where the swap does. Both halves are priced here from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account. On East Africa Time — UTC+3, with no seasonal shift — the London open lands late morning and the London and New York overlap runs through the afternoon, while the platform stamps every hour in server time, so the offset between the two clocks is the first number to settle.

A ticket is paid for twice: once on the way in, where the spread of that hour settles the bill, and again every night it is left open, where the swap does. This planner prices both halves from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account. The Pro planner sizes a position from account risk, plans by reward-to-risk gross and net of costs, uses your own leverage, takes the stop and target in pips or price, and adds commission and overnight swap; Simple returns a quick margin, pip value, spread and swap read on a chosen volume.

InstrumentDirection

Account balanceCurrency

Leverage 1:Entry price

Stop-loss (pips)Take-profit (pips)

Nights heldCommission ($/lot)

Risk per trade (%)

Position size—

Reward : Risk—

—Risk at stop

—Reward at target

Margin required— —

—Pip value

—Spread cost

—Swap

—Net R:R (after costs)

—Total costs

—Break-even

—Notional

—Free margin

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Margin, pip value, spread cost and swap come from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). Figures are indicative — spreads move through the trading day and actual results will vary.

What does 0.01 lot on EUR/USD tie up while it stays open?

A 0.01 lot of EUR/USD on a USD account is 1,000 units of the base currency — about $1,136 at the measured mid rate of 1.13650. For as long as the ticket stays open it locks about $5.68 of margin at 1:200 leverage and moves by about $0.10 a pip; the measured 0.8-pip spread is paid once, on entry, at about $0.08.

Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specifications measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28). Read in shillings, the same amounts follow the day exchange rate, which does not stand still between the London open and the close.

Frequently asked questions

Which leverage figure belongs in the field before anything else is read?

Margin defaults to 1:200 and the field is editable, so it can be set to whatever the account itself uses — until it matches, every margin line on the page belongs to a different account. Margin equals position size divided by leverage: at 1:200, 0.01 lot of EUR/USD needs about $5.68. Figures are indicative.

The output is in dollars — how is that read in shillings?

The planner works in USD, the deposit currency of the example. A figure in shillings is that USD amount at the day exchange rate, so it moves whenever the rate moves — the Currency Converter page covers the indicative mid-rate step, and whoever handles a transfer applies their own rate on top of it.

Does the hour a ticket is opened change what it costs?

Only on the entry side, and only through the spread. Margin, pip value and contract size do not vary by hour; the spread does — in the measured sample the widest EUR/USD hour averaged about 12 times the typical hour, at 20:00 server time. The spread cost line uses the measured average, so an entry in an unusually wide hour costs more than the figure shown.

What is East Africa Time in platform terms?

East Africa Time is UTC+3 and does not shift with the seasons. The platform reports in server time, which carries its own offset, so the two do not line up by default. That offset is fixed and only has to be worked out once, after which the hourly tables can be read against a local clock.

How many nights should be entered for a trade opened on a Friday?

As many rollovers as the ticket will cross. A position opened on Friday and closed the following week crosses the weekend, which most instruments cover through a triple-swap day rather than by charging on Saturday and Sunday. Energies have no triple-swap day and are charged each night.

Why is the reward-to-risk different before and after costs?

Because the spread is paid on entry and the swap accrues per night, both come out of the reward side while the risk side stays where the stop is. A plan that looks like 2:1 gross can read lower once the spread and a few nights of swap are deducted. Figures are indicative.

Can the planner be used for a position held for weeks?

Yes — the nights field takes any number. The longer the holding period, the more the swap dominates: the measured swap table shows what one night costs per lot on each instrument, and the total scales with the nights entered, triple-swap days included.

Should the volume be rounded to a neat number?

Rounding down keeps the money at risk at or under the amount entered; rounding up pushes it above. The planner returns the exact figure, and the lot size page covers the volume step and what rounding does to the risk actually carried.

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Two clocks: the one on the wall and the one on the platform

East Africa Time sits at UTC+3 and does not move with the seasons, so the local trading day is the same block of hours in January and in July. What moves is the other side: London runs an hour ahead of its winter clock through the northern summer, which slides the London open between roughly 10:00 and 11:00 EAT and the London and New York overlap between roughly 15:00 and 16:00 EAT.

The platform uses neither. Every timestamp on the order, in the history and in the hourly tables is server time, and the gap between server time and the wall clock is a fixed number that only has to be worked out once. Written down beside the terminal, it makes the hour-by-hour table readable in local terms.

That single offset changes what the planner means. A stop sized for the London afternoon is a different stop when the ticket is actually opened in the quiet hours before the open, because the spread paid on the way in is not the same in both.

Counting nights, not days

Swap is not a daily fee on the calendar; it is applied at the rollover point for each night the ticket survives. A position opened at 22:00 local time and closed the next morning has crossed one rollover and carries one night. A position opened and closed inside the same afternoon has crossed none, whatever the swap line shows if the nights field was left untouched.

Weekends are folded in ahead of time. On the triple-swap day most instruments apply the nightly amount three times to cover the days the market is shut; energies have no triple-swap day and are simply charged each night. Set the nights field to the honest number before the net reward-to-risk line means anything — the measured swap table shows what one night costs per instrument.

The rollover window is also the expensive one. In the measured sample the widest EUR/USD hour was 20:00 server time, where the average spread ran about 12 times the typical hour — a tight stop left sitting through that window can be reached by the spread alone rather than by the market.

Planning a ticket nobody will be watching

Anyone whose screen time starts after work decides the whole trade in advance: the stop, the target, the volume and how many nights the position is allowed to run. That is exactly the set of fields the Pro planner takes, and the reason it reports a net reward-to-risk rather than a gross one — costs that accrue while nobody is looking are the ones that quietly turn a 2:1 plan into something else.

Two habits carry most of the weight. Fix the risk amount first and let the volume fall out of it, instead of picking a round lot and discovering the risk afterwards. And decide the exit hour as well as the exit price, because a ticket that has to be closed before the rollover window is a different trade from one that can be left to run.

Copy ticket exists for the rest. A finished plan pasted somewhere durable before the order goes in becomes the record the account history is compared against later, when the question is why the closed result and the planned result differ.

Five lines to fill before the order goes in

Set the leverage field to the setting the account itself uses — the margin line means nothing until it matches.
Enter the risk as an amount or a percentage, not as a lot size; the volume is an output, not an input.
Put the stop where the chart says it belongs, then read back the volume the planner returns.
Count the nights the ticket is allowed to stay open, including any triple-swap day, and type that number in.
Read the net reward-to-risk line rather than the gross one, and copy the ticket before placing it.

Figures are indicative and come from measured spreads and contract specifications; they are not a forecast of the result.

Which field moves which number

Field	Where the number comes from	What moves in the output
Leverage	The setting the account itself uses	Required margin and free margin only
Volume	Returned by the risk fields in Pro mode	Margin, pip value, spread cost, swap
Stop in pips	The chart, not the calculator	Volume, risk at stop, net reward-to-risk
Nights held	The plan for the ticket, triple-swap day included	Swap and total costs
Commission	The account type in use	Total costs and the break-even price

Instrument specifications and spreads are measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-07-28) and are indicative.