Exness Account Types: the Three Figures to Bring · Ethiopia
The five accounts are listed on every page that mentions them. What is missing until a reader supplies it: a typical order size, how long a position stays open, and how many trades arrive in a month.
Open Exness Account →The five Exness accounts — Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread and Zero — take a minute to read and rather longer to use, because a comparison answers only the reader who arrives with figures of their own. Three are enough: a typical order size, how long a position is held, and how many trades arrive in a month. Until those exist on paper every row looks equally reasonable, which is why the choice feels harder than it is; once they exist, most rows stop applying and what remains is narrow.
The three figures this page asks for first
- Typical order size — the size used most of the time, not the largest one an account would allow.
- Holding period — whether a position is closed inside the hour, inside the session, or carried into the next day.
- Trades per month — a count, honest to the nearest order of magnitude: five, fifty or five hundred.
- A fourth line that is not a figure: which of the three is a guess. A guess marked as a guess stays usable; an unmarked one quietly turns into a fact.
- None of the three is a setting anywhere. They describe a plan, they are written down before a table is opened, and they are not derived from it.
Where each figure comes from, and how exact it has to be
| Figure | Where to read it off | Precision that is enough | What makes it stale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical order size | The last ten orders actually sent, or the ten a written plan describes | One step of the size field | A change in the balance, or a move to a different instrument |
| Holding period | The time between opening and closing on those same ten | Three words: hour, day, overnight | A plan that moves from intraday to multi-day, or the reverse |
| Trades per month | One calendar month of closed orders, counted once | Order of magnitude: five, fifty, five hundred | A change in working hours, or in how many sessions can be watched |
| Which of them is a guess | A note written next to the figure, by the person who wrote the figure | One word: measured, or estimated | Any of the three above being replaced |
Producing the three figures when there is no history yet
A trader with a year of closed orders reads all three off a statement in two minutes. Without that history the figures still exist — they are simply written as intentions rather than measurements. An intention is a legitimate input as long as it is labelled: two orders a week, closed the same day, at the smallest size the platform will accept is a usable sentence, and reality can be held against it a month later.
The failure mode is not the guess. It is the unlabelled guess: a figure invented on a Tuesday to finish a comparison and treated as measured by Friday. Writing the word estimated next to it costs nothing and keeps the whole exercise repeatable.
How exact a figure has to be before the reading stops changing
Precision past the point where the answer stops moving is wasted effort. If a plan sits somewhere between twenty and fifty trades a month and both ends of that range point at the same line, the range is already precise enough and the remaining work is elsewhere.
The opposite case is the useful one to notice: when the low end and the high end of a range disagree, that figure is doing real work and deserves an hour of attention rather than a shrug. It is the only situation in which the exact number matters at all.
The order in which the three are settled
Order size comes first, because it is the figure under direct control and the other two lean on it: a holding period is the life of a position of some size, and a monthly count is that many of them. The holding period follows, since it depends on the plan and on the hours an instrument is quoted. The monthly count comes last, because it falls out of how much time there is to watch a screen.
Settled in reverse, a monthly count picked out of the air starts dictating the other two, and the note ends up describing an imagined month rather than a plan. The three lines take ten minutes in the right order and cause arguments in the wrong one.
Writing the note in ten minutes
- Open a blank note and put today's date on it — the figures age, and a dated note makes that visible.
- Write the order size a normal trade uses. If nothing has been placed yet, write the size the plan calls for and mark it estimated.
- Write how long a normal position stays open, in one of three words: hour, day, overnight.
- Write how many trades a month are realistic given the hours available to watch a screen, rounded hard.
- Mark every line measured or estimated, and set a date to revisit the estimated ones.
Nothing on this list is entered anywhere or applied to an account. The note lives beside the plan and is read before a comparison table, not after one.
How the note is written down
| Line | Written as | Marked |
|---|---|---|
| Typical order size | One number, in the units the size field uses | measured / estimated |
| Holding period | One word: hour, day, or overnight | measured / estimated |
| Trades per month | One number, rounded hard | measured / estimated |
| Date | The day the note was written | — |
Four lines. Anything longer stops being re-read, and a note that is not re-read is the same as no note at all.