The 0.01 Lot Floor and What Contract Size Decides · FxPro India
The hard numbers behind a Raw+ account, read straight from FxPro’s own MetaTrader 5 feed: contract specs, order rules and the 2,122 tradable instruments — last read 2026-08-17.
Open FxPro Account →These specifications decide what a small account can actually do. The measured minimum order is 0.01 lot with a 0.01-lot step and a 500-lot ceiling, so 0.01 lot is the floor under every position: 1,000 units on an FX major, where one standard lot is 100,000 units, and a single ounce on gold, where the contract is 100 oz. That one line explains why some instruments are structurally expensive for a small deposit before a single pip has moved. The measured stops level is 0, so a stop-loss or take-profit can sit right next to the price at any size, and speed is not the penalty either — the execution table below reports the smallest order size alongside the larger ones, with no rejects across them. The one specification that does not scale down cleanly is the commission: the quoted $3.50 per lot per side holds from 0.1 lot upwards, and on a 0.01-lot ticket the effective rate per lot is higher.
Contract specifications (measured)
| Instrument | Min lot | Max lot | Lot step | Contract size | Tick value (USD) | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100,000 | $1.00 | 5 |
| GBP/USD | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100,000 | $1.00 | 5 |
| AUD/USD | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100,000 | $1.00 | 5 |
| USD/CAD | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100,000 | $0.72 | 5 |
| USD/JPY | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100,000 | $0.63 | 3 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 0.01 | 500 | 0.01 | 100 | $1.00 | 2 |
Read live from FxPro’s MT5 Raw+ account. ‘Tick value’ is the cash change per minimum price increment, per standard lot, in USD — what one point is worth to your P&L. Last read 2026-08-17.
Order rules and account risk
- Minimum order 0.01 lot and maximum 500 lots, in 0.01-lot steps (0.01 lot = 1,000 units on an FX major).
- No minimum stop or limit distance (stops level 0) — you can place a stop-loss or take-profit right next to price, which suits scalping and expert advisors.
- Margin call at 10% and stop-out at 0% margin level, as measured on the Raw+ account — confirm the live levels in your own terminal before risking capital.
- Contract size 100,000 units per lot on FX majors and 100 oz per lot on gold.
Execution speed and slippage (measured)
| Instrument | Order size | Avg fill | Max fill | Avg slippage (pts) | At price / better / worse | Fails |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.01 | 89 ms | 94 ms | 0.0 | 3 / 0 / 0 | 0 |
| EUR/USD | 0.1 | 78 ms | 78 ms | 0.0 | 3 / 0 / 0 | 0 |
| EUR/USD | 1.0 | 89 ms | 94 ms | 0.0 | 3 / 0 / 0 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 0.01 | 83 ms | 94 ms | 0.0 | 3 / 0 / 0 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 0.1 | 83 ms | 93 ms | 0.0 | 3 / 0 / 0 | 0 |
| GBP/USD | 1.0 | 88 ms | 94 ms | 1.0 | 1 / 0 / 2 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 0.01 | 83 ms | 93 ms | 5.667 | 1 / 0 / 2 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 0.1 | 141 ms | 250 ms | -4.333 | 2 / 1 / 0 | 0 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 1.0 | 83 ms | 94 ms | 9.667 | 1 / 0 / 2 | 0 |
Measured by placing real market orders on the Raw+ account and timing each fill; slippage is the price difference (in points) between the click and the fill, and ‘at price / better / worse’ counts how those fills landed. Small sample (a few round-trips per size) — indicative, last read 2026-06-24.
Instrument universe (measured)
FxPro’s live MT5 server carries 2,122 tradable instruments — the real count, not a rounded marketing figure. The major tradable asset classes:
| Asset class | Instruments |
|---|---|
| Stocks | 1,856 |
| Forex | 75 |
| Futures | 57 |
| ETFs | 46 |
| Cryptos | 36 |
| Spot | 22 |
| Metals | 12 |
Counted directly on the trading server. Availability of a specific instrument can vary by account and region.
The floor under every position
Two numbers in the specification table set the boundaries of a small account: the minimum order of 0.01 lot and the 0.01-lot step. Together they mean there is no such thing as a smaller trade — every order is a whole number of those units, one of them or a hundred of them, and never a fraction of one. Everything a small balance does sits on multiples of that unit, and every cost figure published per standard lot has to be divided by a hundred before it means anything on the ticket.
The stops level of 0 works in the same direction and in your favour: with no minimum distance between price and your stop, a small position can be protected as tightly as a large one. The size floor limits how small the position can be; the stop distance is not similarly floored, and neither is the reach of the account — the whole measured universe trades in the same 0.01-lot steps.
Where the contract size decides the bill
The specification that surprises a small deposit most is contract size. An FX major is 100,000 units per lot, so the smallest ticket is 1,000 units. Gold is 100 oz per lot, so the smallest ticket is a whole ounce. The lot fraction is identical and what sits behind it is not — and that is what makes some instruments structurally more expensive for a small account before a single pip has moved.
Everything else follows from it. The cash value of a pip, the cash cost of the spread and the size of the overnight charge are all proportional to the position, and the position on a 0.01-lot ticket is whatever the contract column above says, divided by a hundred. So the way for a small balance to trade cheaper is not to send a smaller order — the floor is fixed — but to pick an instrument whose contract makes that floor smaller. The measured spread feed shows what the choice costs per lot; divide by a hundred for the ticket.
The smallest size is not the slowest
One worry that turns out to be unfounded in the measurements is that a tiny order gets treated as a tiny order. It does not. The execution table above reports 0.01 lot next to 0.1 and 1.0 lot, the averages sit in the same range, nothing failed at any size, and slippage on the FX majors read at or near zero. Whatever the smallest ticket costs, it is not paying for it in fill quality.
So the penalty for trading small is not execution and it is not the stop distance; it is the commission tier. The quoted $3.50 per lot per side applies from 0.1 lot upwards, and below that the rate per lot is higher — a matter of cents on a single ticket, and worth not paying twice by splitting an order that could have gone as one. The Raw+ account page carries the measured commission table by size.
What one lot fraction means, priced at the quoted commission
| Order size | On an FX major (100,000 units per lot) | On gold (100 oz per lot) | Commission round-turn at the quoted $3.50 per lot per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.01 lot (minimum) | 1,000 units | 1 oz | a hundredth of the per-lot round-turn, on a strict pro-rata |
| 0.1 lot | 10,000 units | 10 oz | a tenth of the per-lot round-turn |
| 1.0 lot | 100,000 units | 100 oz | $7.00, the full per-lot round-turn |
Contract sizes are the measured specifications above; the last column applies the quoted $3.50 per lot per side at each size. The smallest row is the one where the pro-rata figure and the measured charge do not agree, because a ticket settles in whole cents — the Raw+ account page prints what each size actually paid.