Lots, Margins, Leverage and Pips
 
   Today's lesson is an important one. After this lesson, we can look at practicals. So let's get started.    In the last lesson, we learned about currency pairs. The currency in front of a currency pair is called the base currency and the currency in the back is called quote currency. It can also be called counter currency.   Consider an example.   EUR / USD = 1.235   In here,   Base currency: EUR  Quote currency: USD    Okay now, let's see what "Lots" are.    Imagine we go to the market and buy potatoes, so how do we get the potatoes? are we count potatoes? No, we buy potatoes per kg or g. Like that in the forex market, we say unit of currency is a "lot". "Lot" is called a standard lot. A lot is always 100,000.   There are lots of mini-lots, micro-lots, nano-lots like gram and kilogram.              Lot (Standard Lot)         100,000            Mini Lot         10,000            Micro Lot         1,000              Nano Lot         100       ...
 
