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Trading risk calculator: check position size, fees, and loss at the stop.
Enter your account balance, risk percentage, entry, stop, target, leverage, and estimated fees in the free calculator below. It sizes a position from your risk budget and estimates the result at your stop or target. No account is needed to calculate; these estimates do not guarantee an execution price or limit your actual loss.
Position size from account risk
Stop and target results after fees
Notional value and estimated margin
Five consecutive losses scenario
1. Enter a consistent trade plan
Choose Long or Short. A long needs a stop below entry and a target above it; a short reverses those directions. Enter account balance, prices, and total estimated trade fees in the same currency. The currency selector changes the display, not exchange rates. Set the risk percentage from your own plan; the default is an illustration, not a recommendation.
2. Calculate risk and position size
Risk budget = account balance × risk % ÷ 100. Position size = (risk budget − fees) ÷ absolute entry-to-stop distance. The calculator treats each unit as gaining or losing one currency unit per one-unit price move. Check instrument specifications and broker size increments before using the result; futures contract multipliers and forex pip-value conversions are not modeled.
3. Try the $10,000 example
With a $10,000 account, 1% illustrative risk, a long entry at $100, stop at $98, target at $106, zero fees, and 1× leverage, the budget is $100. A $2 stop distance gives 50 units, $5,000 notional value, and $5,000 estimated margin. Loss at the stop is $100 and reward at the target is $300: 3R. These are hypothetical outcomes, not a forecast.
4. Include fees before comparing R
Enter Fees as the total estimated cash cost for entry and exit, not a percentage or per-unit rate. In the same example, $4 in fees leaves $96 for the price move, reducing size to 48 units. Estimated loss including fees is $100; reward after fees is $284, or 2.84R. If fees consume the whole budget, there is no positive position size within that budget.
5. Separate margin from risk
Estimated margin = position notional value ÷ leverage. Changing leverage alone changes this estimate, not the position size or planned loss at the stop. Actual broker requirements may differ, and the tool does not calculate liquidation prices. Its Max loss label means the modeled loss at your entered stop; gaps, slippage, and costs you did not enter can make the actual loss larger.
6. Stress-test and review the plan
The five-stop scenario assumes five full-budget losses, each sized at the same percentage of the remaining balance. At 1% on $10,000, the modeled drawdown is $490.10, or about 4.90%; it does not predict how likely that streak is. Compare the scenario with your own daily loss limit and other open positions. After closing a trade, record actual fees, fills, and realized R in your journal and review them against the plan.