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Calculator · Risk per trade

How big should your position be? Work it out from your stop-loss.

Pick the market, set your account and your risk, and type your entry and stop-loss. The size that loses exactly your risk at the stop-loss follows.

0.40

lots to risk $100 with a 25-pip stop-loss on EURUSD

Account currency

That’s 40,000 EUR. 1 pip on 1 lot is $10.00, so a 25-pip stop-loss costs $250.00 per lot.

The math

Size = risk ÷ what the stop-loss costs on 1 lot. On EURUSD 1 lot is 100,000 euros and 1 pip is 0.0001, so a pip on 1 lot is $10. Risking 1% of $10,000 with a 25-pip stop-loss: $100 ÷ (25 × $10) = 0.40 lots. Gold here is 100 ounces a lot with a pip of 0.10, an index 1 per point a lot, Bitcoin 1 coin a lot. Brokers differ, so check yours. When your account is in another currency than the price, the calculator converts at the rate: the entry itself for a pair that holds your currency, the rate you type for anything else. The size is rounded down to 0.01 lot, so the stop-loss never costs more than your risk.

Your own number

Vink works this out from your own trades. From one screenshot each.

Set your risk per trade on your account once. When Vink reads the entry and stop-loss from your TradingView screenshot, it works out the size in lots, and you check it before you save. Under Settings you can set what 1 lot is at your broker.

Try it on your own chartNo account needed.
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Stop loss 4606.81Entry 4600.76Target 4588.66screenshot.png
New tradeFilling the trade
Instrument
XAUUSD
Direction
SHORT
Timeframe
15M
Entry
4600.76
Stop loss
4606.81
Target
4588.66
Position size
2.23lots
Risk : reward
2.00
Outcome
OPEN
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