Position size calculator
The lot size at which a stop-out costs the amount you chose.
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Position size for stocks and crypto
How many shares or coins to buy so that a stop costs no more than the risk you chose, and never more than your account can pay for.
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How many to buy
Buy 20 shares. If the stop is hit you lose about $100.00 (1.00% of the account).
- Position value
- $2,000.00: 20% of the account.
- Distance to the stop
- 5 a share, 5.00% of the price.
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.
The stop sets the size, the account sets the ceiling
With 10,000 in the account and 1% at risk, a trade may lose 100. A stock bought at 100 with a stop at 95 loses 5 a share, so 20 shares fit, a 2,000 position. Move the stop to 99 and 100 shares fit, a 10,000 position: the whole account in one name, for the same 100 of risk. A gap through the stop then costs far more than planned, so the position value matters as much as the risk.
For gold, forex and indices in MetaTrader lots, use the position size calculator; to share one risk budget across several trades, the risk splitter.
Not advice. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not a view on any stock or coin.
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Baroq never holds your money and never trades for you. Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.