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Know Your Risk

What a 1-cent gold move
does to your P/L

Gold (XAUUSD) · cent account · the exact maths, verified on live trades. Lot size is the single biggest risk decision you make — here is what every tick costs, with nothing hidden.

The One Rule
1.00 lot  =  $1 of P/L for every $1 gold moves
Everything below scales straight off this line.
Per 1c Gold Move

The lot-size ladder

0.01 lots
→
$0.0001
= 1/100th of a cent
0.10 lots
→
$0.001
= 1/10th of a cent
1.00 lot
→
$0.01
= one full cent
10.0 lots
→
$0.10
= ten cents
Per $1 Gold Move

Scale it up

0.01 lots
→
$0.01
one cent per dollar of movement
0.10 lots
→
$0.10
ten cents per dollar
1.00 lot
→
$1.00
one dollar per dollar
10.0 lots
→
$10.00
ten dollars per dollar
Proven On A Live Trade
Buy 0.01 lots @ 4124.72  →  price moved by $1.59 to 4126.31 = 159c of movement
159 × $0.0001 = $0.0159  →  terminal shows 1.59 USC  ✔ exact
Reading A Cent Account
On a cent account the terminal shows cents (USC), not dollars.
Move the decimal two places left for real money: 1,160,490 USC = $11,604.90

Why this matters: gold can move several dollars in minutes. Multiply your total open lots by the size of the move and you know your exposure before it happens — not after. Contain the lot size and you contain the risk.

Contain the lot size. Contain the greed.
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