WHAT ARE PIP AND PIPETTE IN FOREX ?
What is a Pip?
The unit of measurement to express the change in value between two currencies is called a “pip.”
If EUR/USD moves from 1.1150 to 1.1151 , that .0001 USD rise in value is ONE PIP.
A pip is usually the last decimal place of a price quote.
Most pairs go out to 4 decimal places, but there are some exceptions like Japanese yen pairs (they go out to two decimal places).
For example, for EUR/USD, it is 0.0001, and for USD/JPY, it is 0.01.
What is a Pipette?
There are forex brokers that quote currency pairs beyond the standard “4 and 2” decimal places to “5 and 3” decimal places.
They are quoting FRACTIONAL PIPS, also called “points” or “pipettes.”
If the concept of a “pip” isn’t already confusing enough for the new forex trader, let’s try to make you even more confused and point out that a “point” or “pipette” or “fractional pip” is equal to a “tenth of a pip“.
For instance, if EUR/USD moves from 1.09840 to 1.09854 , that .00004 USD move higher is 4 PIPETTE.
Value of pips
A pip value can be defined as the price attributed to a move by one pip on the foreign exchange market. When you have a long position and the price is moving in your favor, your open trade will increase in value. The open position behaves in a similar way when the price moves against you. The pip value will tell you how much the incremental profit is worth. To get this value, we need to calculate the pip value.
Since the value of a pip is very tiny, Forex is always traded in standard lots, mini lots and micro lots. A standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency; a mini lot is 10,000 units, while a micro lot is 1,000 units of the base currency. We also have a nano lot, which is 100 units of the base currency. Below you can find a list of how the different lot sizes affect the value of a pip.
Lot size Units of base currency Volume Pip value in USD 1 standard lot 100,000 1.0 1 pip=$10 1 mini lot 10,000 0.1 1 pip=$1 1 micro lot 1,000 0.01 1 pip=$0.1 1 nano lot 100 0.001 1 pip=$0.01
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