XAUUSD Pip Calculator
Calculate XAU/USD pip and tick value from your lot size and broker contract. Enter a pip count or two gold prices, then reconcile the USD 0.01 and USD 0.10 pip conventions without changing the underlying price-movement value.
Enter the pip convention and gold contract
Use the contract and tick size from the exact broker symbol and account.
Gold pip and tick reconciliation
XAU/USD Pip Analysis 2.0.0.
USD 0.01 versus USD 0.10 convention
The same entered price distance produces different pip counts and per-pip values, but the same movement magnitude.
On smaller screens, scroll this table horizontally; the page itself remains contained.
| Convention | Pip size | Pip count | Value per pip | Movement magnitude |
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Lot-size reference table
Reference rows reuse the exact entered contract, pip, tick, distance and account conversion.
The entered lot is added when it is not already one of the three standard reference rows.
| Lots | Troy ounces | Value per selected pip | Value per broker tick | Movement magnitude |
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How XAUUSD pip value is calculated
USD value per selected pip = pip size (USD per oz) × gold exposure (oz)
Account value per pip = USD pip value ÷ USD per account-currency unit
Price distance = pip count × selected pip size
Movement magnitude = price distance × gold exposure
The selected pip is a declared price increment. The broker tick is the minimum price step and remains a separate input. If one selected pip is USD 0.10 and one tick is USD 0.01, the page reports ten ticks per selected pip.
Worked example from the audited fixture
Load the example for 0.50 lot, a 100-oz contract, a USD 0.01 pip and two prices at 2,650.00 and 2,652.50. Exposure is 50 oz, the absolute price distance is USD 2.50 per ounce, and one selected pip is worth USD 0.50.
Under the USD 0.01 convention the move is 250 pips; under the USD 0.10 convention it is 25 pips. In both rows the gross movement magnitude remains USD 125 because the price distance and ounce exposure did not change.
Use and limitations
- Verify the exact symbol contract size, tick size and volume units in the current broker account.
- State whether a gold pip means USD 0.01, USD 0.10 or another increment before comparing pip counts.
- Two-price mode uses an absolute distance and deliberately carries no trade direction.
- Account conversion is manually entered, not fetched or timestamped.
- Spread, commission, swap, slippage, tax, rebates and conversion charges are excluded.
- The result is not a position size, margin requirement, net P/L, forecast or recommendation.
Frequently asked questions
- It depends on the declared pip increment, broker contract size and lot volume. This page multiplies those three entered values instead of assuming one universal gold pip.
- Both conventions appear in broker and educational material. Select the definition your source uses; the comparison table shows why the same price move has different pip counts but the same monetary movement magnitude.
- Multiply the selected USD-per-ounce pip size by contract ounces per lot and lot volume, then divide the USD result by the entered USD-per-account-currency rate if required.
- The tick size is the broker symbol’s minimum price change. A declared pip convention may equal one tick, contain several ticks or use another increment.
- Yes. Two-price mode takes the absolute difference between the entered prices and divides it by the selected pip size. It does not infer buy or sell direction.
- Contract ounces per lot can differ by broker, account and product. Hiding that multiplier can create a ten-times or hundred-times value error.
- Enter the account currency code and how many USD equal one account-currency unit. The page divides USD monetary values by that manually entered rate.
- No. It reconciles entered pip, tick, contract and price-distance arithmetic. It does not size risk, infer direction, calculate net P/L or forecast a market result.
Sources and methodology
- MQL5 Reference — Symbol Properties — distinguishes contract size, tick size, tick value and volume properties.
- MetaTrader 5 Help — Trading Operations — documents symbol-specific contract and trading calculations.
Version 2.0.0 performs deterministic entered-data arithmetic locally. It does not claim one universal XAU/USD contract or pip definition and does not retrieve a broker specification.
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