Route — Leverage across devices
Exness leverage with several devices signed in: one account, one value
The setting is a property of the trading account, so whatever is signed in is quoting one figure back rather than holding one of its own. That much can be read anywhere. What is harder to find written down is what the figure actually does to an order, which is a thing best watched once on a practice account rather than argued about — and what to read when two screens appear to disagree about it. Leverage multiplies losses exactly as it multiplies gains, and trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
Owner and readers
The setting belongs to the trading account, and the terminals only display it
A trading account carries its own leverage setting, and the place it is edited is that account's own settings page inside the Personal Area on the official exness.com. Nothing installed on a computer or a handset holds a copy that matters: terminals ask the trading server what the account is set to, print the answer, and use it to work out how much collateral each position locks up.
One consequence removes an entire category of troubleshooting: there is no per-device value. A laptop cannot be set to one ratio and a phone to another, reinstalling changes nothing, and a machine signed in for the first time shows whatever the account is set to, immediately. Editing happens on exness.com after signing in — never on this site and never inside a terminal. Where each sign-in is being held →
Read here, edit there
What each surface shows, and which one can change it
Four kinds of screen are usually involved in a multi-device setup. Only the first of them has an editable field; the rest are windows onto the same number.
| SHOWS THE VALUE | CAN CHANGE IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Area on exness.com | Yes — beside each trading account, together with the cap available to that account | Yes, and it is the only place |
| Desktop terminal | Yes — with the account details it received when it connected | No — it reports the setting and calculates collateral from it |
| Mobile terminal or app | Yes — on the account screen, refreshed when it reconnects | No |
| Browser session in a tab | Yes — for the account that tab is signed in to | No — a tab open on the Personal Area is a different window entirely |
Swipe the table sideways →
Reading down the right-hand column answers most of the questions people bring to this subject: there is one editor and several displays. All four platforms in the matrix trade accounts that these caps apply to — back to the platform matrix.
Somewhere it costs nothing
The one setting that is genuinely cheap to experiment with
A practice account opened in the Personal Area carries a ratio of its own, runs on virtual funds and quotes the same market prices as a funded account. That combination makes it the only comfortable place to answer the questions this subject raises, because getting the answer wrong there costs nothing at all.
Move it and watch one figure
Set the practice account to one value, note what a ticket of a given volume says it will hold, then set it to another and read the same box again. Two readings, five minutes, and the relationship stops being a sentence in a guide.
Nothing funded is touched
A practice account is a separate account with its own number, so an experiment on it reaches nothing else. There is no shared setting between a practice account and a funded one, in either direction.
The rest of the rehearsal is free too
The same account is where an unfamiliar order type, an instrument never traded before, or a position held past the end of the trading day can be looked at without consequences. The full list of what is worth trying →
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
The exercise itself
Four readings to take while the value is being moved
The exercise below is written for a practice account, where nothing is at stake and the same figures behave the same way. It takes a few minutes and it replaces most of what is usually read about this subject.
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Note what a ticket says it will hold
Open the order ticket for a volume worth trying, and read the figure it states before anything is confirmed. Write it down rather than remember it; the whole exercise is a comparison of two written numbers.
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Change the setting on that practice account
It is edited in the account's own settings inside the Personal Area, and a practice account is edited exactly as a funded one is. Nothing else about the account is touched by doing it.
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Read the same box again
Same instrument, same volume, different figure. That difference is the entire mechanical effect of the setting, seen once rather than described three times.
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Open a small position and look at what is left free
The part of the balance still available is what the exercise is really about. A setting that holds back less leaves more of it showing, which is precisely why the temptation that follows is to use the room rather than to notice it.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone. Running this on virtual funds costs nothing and answers the question for good. What else is worth rehearsing there →
Three glances
What to look at on the way to an order, and in what order to look
Most of the confusion this page exists to settle disappears if three things are read in sequence rather than argued about afterwards. None of them takes more than a glance, and the sequence matters more than the speed.
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The account line, before anything else
Which account is signed in here, and is it the one this order was meant for. A practice account and a funded one sitting in the same list look alike at a glance and behave nothing alike afterwards.
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The ratio printed beside it
Read it rather than remember it. A figure carried over from another account, or from a note written last month, is the most common reason an estimate made off the screen turns out not to match what the ticket asks for.
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What the ticket says it will hold
The order ticket states the collateral the position will tie up before anything is confirmed. That figure is the arithmetic of the two readings above applied to the volume in the box, and it is the screen on which a reading that was not what was expected still shows itself.
Running the sequence once on a practice account is enough to make it automatic. What else is worth rehearsing there →
Ten seconds
Checking that two screens agree, in one move
Rather than comparing every figure on two displays of different sizes, compare one pair. If the pair matches, everything computed from it matches too.
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Read the account number on each screen
It is printed on the account line in every terminal and beside each account in the Personal Area. Two different numbers ends the investigation immediately: these are two accounts, and two settings are the expected outcome rather than a fault.
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Read the leverage line beside it
Same number, same ratio, on both screens: the setups agree and nothing needs doing. Same number, different ratio: one of the two sessions is stale, and the older one is whichever has been connected longest.
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Reconnect the odd one out, then check margin level
Signing in again refreshes the figure. Because the ratio decides how much collateral each open position holds, the margin level is what to glance at afterwards — on the screen that has just caught up.
Worth knowing before the comparison is made: a demo account passes this test exactly like a real one, which makes it a comfortable place to rehearse the whole routine on a second device. How to open a demo →
Quick answers
What to read, where to read it, and what the reading means
Two screens show different ratios. Which one is right?
Read the account number on each before comparing anything else. Two different numbers means two accounts, and both readings are correct. The same number on both means one session has not asked the server since the change was made, and signing in again there brings the current figure across.
Which screen is the one likely to be out of date?
Whichever has been connected longest. A machine nobody has touched since the morning is holding the copy it collected that morning, and it is stale precisely because nobody has touched it.
Does the value have to be set again on each device?
No, and it cannot be. It is edited once, in the account's own settings inside the Personal Area, and every terminal signed in to that account reads it from the trading server. What does need doing separately is each further trading account.
What does the ticket figure actually represent?
The part of the balance that the position will hold back while it stays open. It is not a charge and it is not spent — it is released when the position closes, and it is the one figure on the ticket that the setting is responsible for.
Can the same exercise be run without any money involved?
Yes, and it is the recommended way to run it. A practice account carries its own setting and quotes the same market prices, so the two readings can be taken on virtual funds. What else is worth rehearsing there →
Is anything on the other devices affected when the value is edited?
No session is ended, nothing has to be reinstalled and no identity check is repeated. Each display simply collects a newer copy the next time it asks.
Where can the value be seen without opening a terminal?
In the account list inside the Personal Area, where each trading account is shown with its number and the value it is set to. That list is the reference copy; every terminal is showing a version of it received when it connected.
Does a practice account share the setting with a funded one?
It does not. They are separate accounts with separate numbers, which is exactly what makes one of them safe to experiment on while the other carries on untouched.
One account is what makes the screens agree
The account behind all of this is opened on the official Exness website in one short sitting: a working email address, a handful of questions, and identity verification carried out afterwards inside the Personal Area. Every trading account created there brings a ratio of its own, with the ceiling it may reach shown alongside; each device signed in afterwards is quoting that single line back. Full registration walkthrough →
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