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Per side, round turn or per million: three ways to write one price. See what your broker's commission really is per trade, and how far the price must move to pay it.
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$7.00 per lot, round turn (open and close) on Gold (XAUUSD) is $7.00 a lot for the whole trade: open and close cost $3.50 each, and the price has to move 0.07 (0.70 pips) just to pay it.
- As a per-million rate
- $8.75 per million per side: one lot is worth $400,000.00.
- At 1 lot
- $7.00 a trade, open and close. Ten trades a week is $3,640.00 a year.
The same per-lot rate on every instrument, at example prices: a round turn for one lot, and in pips.
| Instrument | Round turn, 1 lot | In pips |
|---|---|---|
| XAUUSD | $7.00 | 0.70 |
| XAGUSD | $7.00 | 0.14 |
| EURUSD | $7.00 | 0.70 |
| GBPUSD | $7.00 | 0.70 |
| AUDUSD | $7.00 | 0.70 |
| NZDUSD | $7.00 | 0.70 |
| USDJPY | $7.00 | 1.05 |
| USDCAD | $7.00 | 0.97 |
| USDCHF | $7.00 | 0.56 |
| US30 | $7.00 | 7.00 |
| NAS100 | $7.00 | 7.00 |
| US500 | $7.00 | 7.00 |
In US dollars. Many brokers charge no commission on gold or indices and take it in the spread instead: add the spread with the cost check.
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"3.50" and "7" can be the same price
A raw account that charges 3.50 dollars a lot per side charges 7 dollars for a whole trade, because every trade is opened and closed. Some brokers write the 7, some the 3.50, and some a rate per million dollars traded. That last one depends on what a lot is worth: a lot of EURUSD is about 110,000 dollars, a lot of gold at 4,000 is 400,000, so 35 dollars per million is 7.70 a round turn on the euro and 28 on gold.
To compare a raw account with a standard one, put the spread and the commission side by side with the raw or standard account check.
Not advice. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type; your broker's contract specification decides.
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