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Trading Calculators

Learn it. Calculate it. Understand it.

Every tool here runs the same calculation engine, shows its working, and links back to the concepts behind the result. Nothing to install, no account needed.

Full calculators

Risk Calculator

The complete picture for a single trade: position size, exposure, potential profit and loss, and risk/reward — with the arithmetic shown step by step.

Example

$10,000 account · 1% risk · $50 entry · $48 stop

50 shares · $100 at risk · $2,500 position

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Position Size Calculator

One question, answered immediately: how many shares should this trade be? Handles long and short, and rounds to whole shares.

Example

Risk $100 with a $2 stop distance

50 shares

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Risk/Reward Calculator

Compare the upside to the downside, see the win rate the trade demands, and test what different win rates actually return.

Example

Risk $2 per share to make $6 per share

1 : 3 · break even at 25%

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Calculators built into the lesson

These are fully working tools that live inside the dictionary page that explains them, because the concept and the calculation are the same lesson. Change the numbers and read what happens.

In the lesson

Drawdown Calculator

How deep the hole is, and the gain required to climb back out of it.

Example

$10,000 peak falling to $8,000

−20% · needs +25% to recover

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In the lesson

Leverage & Liquidation

What leverage does to a position, and how far price can move before margin runs out.

Example

$1,000 capital at 10× leverage

$10,000 position · 10% to liquidation

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In the lesson

Compound Growth Calculator

What a consistent return per period does to a balance over time.

Example

$10,000 at 2% for 24 periods

$16,084 · 1.61×

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In the lesson

Expectancy Calculator

Whether an edge actually makes money once win rate and average sizes are combined.

Example

40% win rate · $300 wins · $100 losses

+$60 per trade

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In the lesson

Pip Value Calculator

Turns forex pip movement into money, so a stop in pips becomes a risk in dollars.

Example

100,000 units · 20 pip stop

$10 per pip · $200 at risk

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In the lesson

Spread Cost Calculator

The cost baked into every round trip, before commissions.

Example

$49.98 bid · $50.02 ask · 200 shares

$0.04 spread · $8.00 to enter

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