Margin Calculator: Required Margin Tool
Margin is the amount reserved in your account to open a position: trade size × rate ÷ leverage.
Margin Calculator
The margin required to open a leveraged position.
Margin: 11,000
Calculations are estimates and not investment advice; they vary with broker conditions.
Risk warning. Leveraged forex trading carries high risk and, in Türkiye, is subject to SPK regulation (1:10 leverage cap, ~50,000 TRY margin). This content is not investment advice; user statements belong to their authors.
A worked example
A 100,000-unit position opened at a rate of 1.10 with 1:10 leverage requires 100,000 × 1.10 ÷ 10 = 11,000 units of margin. The same position at 1:5 requires 22,000.
The practical consequence: as leverage falls you must set aside more capital for the same position — but the position also becomes proportionally more resilient.
Initial margin, maintenance margin
What you compute here is the initial margin. SPK regulation splits the margin structure into at least initial and **maintenance** margin; the latter is the level that must be preserved after the position is open.
Falling below maintenance margin triggers a margin call. The concept is covered on our margin page.
Where is your margin held?
At SPK-authorised intermediaries, client margins must be tracked and reported per client, and collected margins are reported to the central clearing institution. On an unauthorised platform there is no such chain.
Before trading, verify the firm is on the SPK-authorised list. This calculation is an estimate and not investment advice.