Where the deposit meets the ticket

The first position is measured against the figure that was credited, not the figure you sent (Bangladesh)

A transfer ends with one number on the account panel. The order ticket is where that number is first spent, and the arithmetic between the two is the only part of a first trade this site has anything to say about. Nothing here is about what to open, in which direction, or when.

In short: read the credited figure, read what the ticket says a position will take hold of, and subtract. What is left is what the account still has for anything else — including for the position moving against you for a while. Most first-time surprises are that subtraction never being done.

Three numbers, taken in this order

All three are readings. None requires an opinion about any market.

The number	Where it is stated	What it decides
What was credited	The entry in the account area, and the balance line once it lands	The ceiling on everything below. It is the credited figure, which may differ from the one that was typed
What the ticket will hold	The order screen, before the confirmation	How much of the credited figure stops being available the instant the position exists
What is left after both	The free margin line on the panel	Room. Whether the position can move against you for a while without the account running out of it

If the third number is small or zero, the position is not wrong — the account is simply fully committed by one decision, which is a state worth entering deliberately rather than discovering. Do the subtraction with your own figures.

What changes on the panel at the moment of the click

Four things move at once, and only one of them is a cost.

Part of the balance is held in place

Held, not spent, not paid to anyone. It comes back into the free part the moment the position closes, and the ticket stated the amount before you confirmed.
The position starts slightly behind

Two prices exist at once, and a new position opens on the far side of the gap between them. That gap is the spread and it is the actual cost of entering — the first genuine outgoing since the deposit was credited.
Balance and equity stop agreeing

Balance is the settled figure; equity carries the running result of what is open. From this moment the account has two numbers where the deposit left one, and neither is wrong.
A daily boundary starts to matter

A position carried past the market's daily close can pick up an overnight charge, stated on the ticket in advance. It is written into the account like any trading cost — it is never a transfer, and it is why a balance can move on a day nothing was done.

When the credited amount and the ticket disagree

What you see	What to check	Next step
The ticket refuses the size you wanted	The smallest step the account accepts, and the free part of the balance	A smaller size, or a unit that counts in cents. Sending more money is the expensive answer to a question the account has already answered
Free margin near zero straight after opening	What the ticket said it would hold, against what was credited	The account is fully committed by one position. Reducing the size restores room; nothing else does
The panel shows a small loss the instant it opens	The gap between the two prices at entry	Expected. It is the cost of entering, not a movement against you
An intention to «add money if it goes wrong»	Whether that transfer was decided before or after the position	Decided after, it is a reaction rather than a plan. Why the second transfer is different

The rehearsal that costs nothing

All four panel changes can be watched on a free demo before any money is credited anywhere: open one position at the smallest size, see how much of the account stops being free, close it, see the amount come back. Ten minutes, no documents, no transfer.

What a demo cannot supply is the consequence. The figures behave identically and the reasoning does not, because a virtual balance costs nothing to be wrong with. What it can settle, and what it cannot.

Stated plainly

Nothing on this page is a view about when to open or close anything, at what size, or on what instrument. This site publishes no directions and no forecasts of any kind.

What a position holds is not a limit on what it can cost. CFDs are complex instruments and trading them with leverage can lose money — and everything credited to the account can go, whichever way the arithmetic above comes out.

Questions about the first one

How much of a credited deposit does one position use?

Whatever the ticket states it will hold, which follows the instrument, the size and the account type. It is displayed before the confirmation rather than discovered afterwards.

Is the held amount a charge?

No. It is your own money reserved while the position runs, and it returns to the free part when the position closes. The charge at entry is the spread.

Why did the balance change overnight?

Either the position moved with the market, or it was carried past the daily close and picked up an overnight charge. Neither is a transfer, and neither appears in the transaction list as one.

Does the ticket say what will be held before I confirm?

Yes, and that is what makes the subtraction on this page possible at all.

What if the credited amount is too small for any position?

Then the account cannot act, and there are two ways forward: a unit that counts in cents, or a larger transfer decided away from the screen. The first is cheaper. What the type changes.

Should the first position be opened as soon as the money lands?

Nothing requires it. A funded account carries no monthly charge and no activity requirement, so there is no cost in leaving it alone until the arithmetic is comfortable.

Can several positions be opened at once on a first deposit?

Each one holds its own share of the balance, so the free part falls with every one. The panel answers this faster than any rule of thumb: watch what is left after the first.

Around this page

The arithmetic, worked

The same three numbers, written as a calculation.

Open it

The words on the panel

Balance, equity, margin and free margin, told apart.

Read the list

Back to the transfer

Five moments, and the reading that belongs to each.

Follow it

The order ticket states the hold before you confirm.

It can be read on a free demo first, against virtual money and with nothing transferred. The button opens the official exness.com sign-up through a partner link.

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