SigmaForex - How to Calculate Profit or Loss ?
The Profit Calculations, on the Short-sell trade scenario below, may seem
somewhat complicated if you've never been in the FOREX market before, but this
process is continually calculated through your broker trade station (software).
I show you this process below so you can SEE how a PROFIT might occur.
The current bid/ask price for USD/JPY is 107.50/107.54, meaning you can buy $1
US for 107.54 YEN, or sell $1 US for 107.50 YEN.
Suppose you think that the US Dollar (USD) is overvalued against the YEN (JPY).
To execute this strategy, you would sell Dollars (simultaneously buying YEN),
and then wait for the exchange rate to rise.
Your trade would be the following: you sell 1 lot USD (US $100,000) and you buy
1 lot JPY (10,754.000 YEN). (Remember, at 0.25 % margin, your initial margin
deposit for this trade would be $ 250.)
As you expected, USD/JPY falls to 106.50/106.54, meaning you can now buy $1 US
for $106.54 Japanese YEN or sell $1 US for 106.50.
Since you're short dollars (and are long YEN), you must now buy dollars and sell
back the YEN to realize any profit.
You buy US $100,000 at the current USD/JPY rate of 106.54, and receive
10,654,000 YEN. Since you originally bought (paid for) 10,754,000 YEN, your
profit is 100,000 YEN.
To calculate your P&L in terms of US dollars, divide 100,000 by the current
USD/JPY rate of 106.54
Total profit = US $938.61
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