Trading calculators
Position size calculator
Position size is the number of lots at which a stop loss costs exactly the share of the account you decided to risk. Pick the pair and your account currency, then enter the balance, the risk per trade and the stop distance in pips. The value of one pip for a full lot is filled in at the current rate.
Prices from our market bridge as of Sep 24, 06:30 PM UTC. Any field can be changed by hand.
- Risk amount
- 100.00
- Position size (lots)
- 0.5
How it is calculated
Risk amount is the balance times the risk percentage. Position size is the risk amount divided by what one lot loses at the stop: the stop distance in pips times the pip value per lot.
For a standard lot of a pair quoted in your account currency, EURUSD on a USD account for example, a pip is worth 10. For crosses and JPY pairs it depends on the exchange rate, so the calculator fills it in from the current price of the pair you pick. Your broker rounds the result to its lot step, usually 0.01.