Pip value
The money gained or lost when price moves one pip for a given position size. One standard lot of a USD-quoted pair is worth about $10 per pip.
For other pairs the value depends on the exchange rate between the quote currency and your account currency.
With real data
Pip value by account currency (EUR/USD, 1 standard lot)
- USD account
- 10.00 USD
- EUR account
- 8.90 EUR
- GBP account
- 7.50 GBP
- JPY account
- 1580.21 JPY
- AUD account
- 14.40 AUD
Calculated from price data up to 16 October 2026.
In practice
A trader with a euro account buys 0.50 lots of GBP/JPY. One pip is 0.01 × 50,000 = 500 yen, which at recent rates is about €2.80. A 40-pip stop therefore risks roughly €110, and the exact figure moves with the yen.
Assuming every pair is worth $10 a pip per lot. That only holds when the quote currency matches your account currency, as with EUR/USD in a dollar account.
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