Position size calculator
The lot size at which a stop-out costs the amount you chose.
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How many lots for a profit?
The lot size that makes the money you want on the move you expect, with what the same lots lose at your stop right beside it.
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The target
The lot size
To make $100.00 on a move of 10.00 in Gold (XAUUSD), trade 0.1 lots.
The same 0.1 lots lose $100.00 at a stop 10.00 away, 1.0% of $10,000.00.
- The same move against you
- Loses $100.00 if there is no stop before it: a target and a loss of the same size are one trade.
- Reward to risk
- 1.00 to 1: the target is 1.00 times the stop distance.
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.
Size from the stop, then see the profit
Working back from the money you want is the most common way to pick a lot size, and the riskiest: the market does not know your target, and the same lots that make 100 on a move up lose 100 on the same move down. Professionals start from the other end: the most they accept to lose if the stop is hit, usually 0.5% to 1% of the account, and let that set the size. Then the target says what the trade can make.
- The lot size from your stop and your risk: the position size calculator.
- The result of a trade after costs, in money and R: the profit and loss calculator.
Not advice. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not a forecast that the move will happen.
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Baroq never holds your money and never trades for you. Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.