Tue 27 Sep 2011
What Are Pips?
Posted by Arthur under Forex
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If a trader tells you that they made one hundred pips profit, you don’t learn anything about their money situation. If they are trading a pair like EUR/USD where the buck is the quote currency, one hundred pips profit would be $1,000 on a standard lot of $100,000 but only $10 on a $1,000 micro lot. To calculate profit or loss from pips where the dollar is the quote currency, you simply need to grasp that one pip is $0.0001 x lot size. If you have another currency as the quote currency, the pip is naturally in that currency, and you can multiply by the exchange rate to know the pip worth in dollars.
All this may seem confusing at first glance but anybody who starts trading will extremely soon understand what a pip means in practice. Currency trading pips are a useful tool for measuring and recording price movements in currency trading.