Position Size Calculator
Master your risk management with our free position size calculator, this is an essential tool for every trader. Whether you’re trading forex, stocks, or cryptocurrencies, calculating the correct position size helps you protect your capital and stay consistent with your strategy.
Our position size calculator makes it easy to determine how much to trade based on your account balance, risk tolerance, stop-loss distance, and the asset you’re trading. It’s fast, simple, and ensures you’re not risking more than you can afford to lose.
Accurate Risk Management with Our Position Size Calculator
Why use our position size calculator?
- Calculate trade size in lots, units, or shares based on your risk
- Ideal for forex, crypto, indices, and stock trading
- Prevent overleveraging and maintain consistent risk per trade
- Supports multiple currencies and trading account types
- Works for all trading styles: scalping, day trading, and swing trading
Using a position size calculator is a key habit of professional traders. Start using it today to improve your trading discipline and long-term profitability.
Understanding each field
- Stop Loss: This is the distance in Pips from your entry to your Stop Loss
- Pip Size: This is the value of one single pip. Normally one Pip is 0.0001. For currency pairs that includes JPY. One pip is 0.001
- Risk: This is the percentage of your account balance that will be at risk when you enter the trade.
- Lots (Trade size): This is the final size amount that you have enter in your trading platform.
- Units (Trade size): This is the equivalent of Units of the quoted currency that you will be trading. Remember that 1 Lot is 100.000 units.
- Money at Risk: This is the value of money that you will be risking if you enter with that Lot Size amount.
A lot in forex defines the position size, or, the trade size. It is the number of currency units to be sold or bought in a trade. In forex trading 1 standard lot equals to 100,000 units of the base currency. For example, when an investor enters a long 1 lot EUR/USD trade, he/she is buying 100,000 units of the Euro (base currency) versus the USD (counter currency).
Several retail forex brokers also offer FX trading with fractional lot sizes; from 0.99 down to 0.10 (mini lots). In an attempt to popularize currencies trading, and attract new business, other retail brokers also offer smaller trade sizes, 0.01 (mini lots) and even 0.001 (nano lots).
Check out the our other calculators to help you calculate your trades very accurately.