Lot sizes calculated by Amount in Base currency doesnt seem to be working

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Hi community, 

I seem to be having an issue with an EA opening lots far larger than intended. I've set the EA to open lits valued at 100 of base currency (USD), but it seems to be opening extremely large lots instead (17.9). 

Any Idea what I'm doing worng here?

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Thanks :),

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Andrey Khatimlianskyi
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What's your account size and currency?

What pair do you trade? Show me its specification please.

I'm not sure this mode should work for currencies, but I'll check.

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Quote from Andrey Khatimlianskyi

What's your account size and currency?

What pair do you trade? Show me its specification please.

I'm not sure this mode should work for currencies, but I'll check.

Hi Andrey, 

Apologies, this one is a $50,000 USD account, and the pair is AUDCAD, but it seems to come into the same issue for all pairs. 

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Andrey Khatimlianskyi
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Oh, why didn't I open user manual right after found this topic?

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100 / 0.9150 = 109.28. I guess, it was limited by free margin to 17.9 in your case.

To use 100 USD as a margin, use Margin percent use mode and Lot risk = 0.4% (it will be $100 for $50K balance).

Next time please read the users manual yourself before asking ;)