{"id":3143,"date":"2025-08-26T00:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com.au\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:55:21","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-balance-and-equity-in-mt4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/trading-account-management\/what-is-the-difference-between-balance-and-equity-in-mt4\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between balance and equity in MT4?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_font=&#8221;&#8211;et_global_heading_font|900|||||||&#8221; title_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In MT4, <strong>balance<\/strong> and <strong>equity<\/strong> are two key financial metrics that help traders understand their account status.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Balance:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>This is the total amount of money in your trading account from closed trades. It doesn\u2019t include any profits or losses from open positions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Equity:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>This is the total value of your account, including your balance and the current value of any open positions. It shows how much your account is worth right now, taking into account unrealized gains or losses.<\/p>\n<p>It is calculated as:<br \/>Equity = balance + unrealized PNL<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In MT4, balance and equity are two key financial metrics that help traders understand their account status. Balance:This is the total amount of money in your trading account from closed trades. It doesn\u2019t include any profits or losses from open positions. Equity:This is the total value of your account, including your balance and the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trading-account-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decodecapital.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}