Position size for stocks and crypto
Shares or coins for your risk, capped by what you can buy.
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Stock profit calculator
What a stock trade made or lost after commission and tax, as money and as a return on the money you put in.
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The result
Profit of $498.00 after costs: +9.96% on the money put in, from a +10.00% move.
- Bought for
- $5,000.00, sold for $5,500.00.
- Costs
- $2.00 in commission for the buy and the sell.
- Break-even sell price
- 50.02: 0.04% above the buy just to pay the costs.
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
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Small orders pay more for the same move
100 shares bought at 50 and sold at 55 make 500 before costs. At 1 per order the commission is 2, and the trade is up about 9.96%. Buy 5 shares instead and the same 2 of commission is 0.8% of the 250 put in, so the price must rise 0.8% before the trade makes anything. A flat fee hurts small orders most; a percentage fee costs the same share on any size.
To size a new buy against a stop, use the position size calculator for stocks and crypto; for several buys of the same stock, the average price calculator.
Not advice or tax advice. Arithmetic on the numbers you type; dividends, currency costs and local tax rules are left out.
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Average price calculator
The average of several buys, and the rise back to even.
Profit and loss calculator
A trade's result after costs, in money and in R.
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Baroq never holds your money and never trades for you. Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.