Crypto position size calculator
The position size at which hitting the stop loss costs you the share of your balance you set, entry and exit fees included. Beside it, the minimum leverage that opens such a position.
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The size at which hitting the stop loses the share of your balance you set, entry and exit fees included. The leverage is at least the position over the balance.
Result
Type the balance, the risk, the entry price and the stop loss.
How it counts
The loss you accept = balance × the risk per trade. The distance to the stop = |entry price − stop loss|; the taker fees at entry and exit per coin are added to it.
Quantity = the loss you accept / (distance to the stop + fees per coin). Position size = quantity × the entry price.
The minimum leverage = position size / balance: with less leverage your balance cannot open the position. The button under the result carries the size and the leverage into the position calculation, with its liquidation price.
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- Liquidation calculator — the liquidation price of a long or a short at the exchange's maintenance margin rate
- Leverage calculator — the margin, the ROE on each percent of price move and the liquidation at a given leverage
- Crypto profit calculator — the profit of a coin trade on one exchange and its break-even sell price
- Futures — futures routes now: basis and funding between exchanges, profit after fees
- Futures basis — spot–futures basis by exchange and coin
- Funding — funding rates on every exchange
- Calculator — the spot arbitrage calculator, with the transfer between exchanges
FAQ
- How big a position can I open with a given stop?
- Example: a 10,000 USDT balance, 1% risk (100 USDT), entry 100 and a stop at 98, fees 0.1% each way. The distance is 2 plus 0.2 in fees, so 100 / 2.2 gives about 45.5 coins, a position of about 4,545 USDT. A tighter stop gives a bigger position, a wider one a smaller.
- What risk per trade should I use?
- Most often 1–2% of the balance, so that ten losing trades in a row cost no more than 10–20%. The calculator does not advise a share: it sizes the position for the one you set.
- Why are fees in the calculation?
- A stop loss fills as a market order: the taker fee at entry and at exit comes on top of the loss on the price. Without them the real loss would exceed the one you set.
- What is the minimum leverage?
- The position size divided by the balance. With a tight stop the position comes out larger than the balance, and it cannot be opened without leverage.