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Mini lot

A mini lot is one tenth of a standard lot: 10,000 units of the base currency, written as 0.10 lots.

Also called: 0.1 lot, mini-lot

Hypothetical example

On EUR/USD, a mini lot is 10,000 euros. Hypothetically, a 1-pip move is worth $1, up or down.

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