{"id":242203,"date":"2026-10-21T14:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=242203"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:38:41","slug":"nordfx-0-10-lot-is-not-always-0-10-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=242203","title":{"rendered":"NordFX | 0.10 Lot Is Not Always 0.10 Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You type <strong>0.10<\/strong> into the order window. Familiar number. Familiar risk? Not necessarily. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>The same lot size can represent completely different exposure depending on what you\u00a0trade:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb6 <strong>EURUSD<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 100,000 EUR<br \/>\ud83e\udd47 <strong>XAUUSD<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 100 oz<br \/>\u20bf <strong>BTCUSD<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 1 BTC<br \/>\ud83d\udcca <strong>DE40<\/strong>\u20131 lot = 1 index\u00a0unit<\/p>\n<p>So copying the same lot size from forex to gold, crypto or an index does <strong>not<\/strong> mean copying the same\u00a0risk.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d The difference is hidden in three numbers traders often overlook: <strong>contract size, tick size and tick\u00a0value<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And there are more traps. A tick is not always a pip. A tiny tick size does not necessarily mean tiny risk. And even a <strong>0.00 tick size<\/strong> shown in MT5 does not mean a price move is worth\u00a0nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Our new guide breaks it all down with practical examples and shows how to read instrument specifications, calculate the value of a price move and size positions more intelligently. \ud83d\udcca<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <strong>Before you compare lot sizes, compare what those lots actually represent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcd6 Read the full guide:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nordfx.com\/useful-articles\/tick-size-tick-value-contract-size?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=nordfx\">https:\/\/nordfx.com\/useful-articles\/tick-size-tick-value-contract-size?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=nordfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/nordfx-0-10-lot-is-not-always-0-10-lot-86b4b0be44e6\">\ud83d\udccf NordFX | 0.10 Lot Is Not Always 0.10 Lot<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You type 0.10 into the order window. Familiar number. Familiar risk? Not necessarily. \ud83d\udc40 The same lot size can represent completely different exposure depending on what you\u00a0trade: \ud83d\udcb6 EURUSD\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 100,000 EUR\ud83e\udd47 XAUUSD\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 100 oz\u20bf BTCUSD\u200a\u2014\u200a1 lot = 1 BTC\ud83d\udcca DE40\u20131 lot = 1 index\u00a0unit So copying the same lot size from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":242204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}