Try the Pip Distance Calculator Widget
Free for any site, including commercial ones. Keep the small credit line at the bottom of the widget so readers can find the full version. Nothing is stored about the people who use it. See the disclaimer.
How to add it to your site
- Copy the code Use the copy button in the Embed code box so nothing is lost to line wrapping. It is a single iframe tag and it does not need anything else.
- Open the page you want it on In WordPress add a Custom HTML block, in Wix use the Embed HTML element, in Squarespace use a Code block, and on a hand-built site paste it straight into your HTML.
- Paste and publish The widget appears immediately. If you see an empty space instead, your editor has stripped the iframe tag, which the HTML embed guide explains how to work around.
- Adjust the look if you want to Add the parameters in the table below to the iframe URL to change the theme, the accent colour or the height. Nothing needs to be configured on our side.
Customisation options
| Parameter | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|
theme | auto, light, dark | Default follows the reader's own system setting, so the widget looks right on a dark site and a light one without you choosing. |
accent | Six hex digits, e.g. accent=1A56DB | Recolours the header bar and the primary button to match your brand. |
header | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 to hide the title bar when your page already has a heading above the widget. |
breakdown | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 to hide the calculation breakdown for a more compact block. |
corners | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 for square corners if your design has no rounding anywhere else. |
width | full | Removes the 520px maximum so the widget stretches to its container. |
Parameters are added to the iframe URL as a normal query string, for example
/embed/pip-distance-calculator.html?theme=dark&accent=1A56DB&header=0. The
widget builder lets you set all of them visually and hands you the finished code.
What the widget calculates
Measures the distance between two prices in pips and points and turns it into money for your lot size. Enter an entry and a stop or target and it returns the pips between them, the move as a percentage, and what that move is worth in dollars and rand. The instrument type sets the pip size: 0.0001 for standard pairs, 0.01 for JPY pairs, and the common conventions for gold and indices, with a custom option for brokers that differ.
It exists because the question "how many pips is that" comes up before every trade and the arithmetic is easy to get wrong by a factor of ten on JPY pairs and gold. The Pip Value Calculator on this site tells you what one pip is worth; this one tells you how many pips a move is.
The embedded version keeps the inputs and the result. The full Pip Distance Calculator on TradeAnswers adds worked examples, the method behind the numbers and a long FAQ.
Who this widget suits
Forex education sites
Drop it into the lesson it belongs to so readers can test their own pairs and sizes.
Finance blogs and newsletters
A working tool in a post gives readers a reason to return to that page.
Expat, travel and import sites
Rand-aware currency tools are hard to find; this one treats ZAR pairs as ordinary pairs.
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