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Calculate trading profit or loss from your entry price, exit price, direction and lot size. Use this free forex P&L calculator to check price movement, gross profit and net results after the costs you enter.
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Need help? Read the stepsPlanning estimates from the values you enter. Preset prices are examples, not live quotes. Match your broker’s contract and currency conversion, use executable entry and exit prices to reflect the spread, and enter known costs once.
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Estimate a planned exit or review a completed trade using your actual fill prices.
Select a market, instrument and account currency. Presets include forex and other markets; check every contract against your broker.
Choose Buy or Sell and enter your trade size in lots or units. Add your entry and exit prices, using executable prices to reflect the spread.
Verify the contract and conversion rate. Add commission, fixed fees, financing and any exit slippage allowance you want to model.
Compare gross price P&L with net profit or loss. Enter an optional account balance or equity to see the result as an account return percentage.
Planning a trade or reviewing one? Use a hypothetical exit to compare possible outcomes. For a closed trade, use actual fill prices and set the extra slippage allowance to zero. The tool calculates a scenario; it does not forecast the next market price.
A forex profit calculator measures the price difference between your entry and exit, applies your trade size and converts the result into your account currency. The same inputs can produce a profit or loss depending on whether you bought or sold.
A Buy trade has a positive price result when the exit is above the entry. A Sell trade has a positive price result when the exit is below the entry. Moving against the selected direction produces a negative gross result.
This forex trading calculator also separates the price result from the fees and financing you enter. A gross profit can become a net loss when those charges are larger than the gain.
Buy P&L = (Exit − Entry) × Units
Sell P&L = (Entry − Exit) × Units
Suppose you Buy 1.00 lot of EUR/USD at 1.10000 and close at 1.10500. Assume a standard 100,000-unit contract, a USD account and no additional slippage. The move in your favour is 0.00500, or 50 pips.
Now enter $7 round-trip commission per lot, $3 fixed fees and a −$5 financing adjustment. Net P&L = $500 − $7 − $3 − $5 = +$485. On a $10,000 reference account, that is 4.85%.
For a Sell trade with the same entry and exit, the gross result would be −$500. With those same charges, net P&L would be −$515. These are calculations from example prices, not expected returns.
Use the tool as a forex pip profit calculator by comparing the pip movement and its cash value for your position. For EUR/USD with a USD account and a standard contract, one pip is worth $10 at 1 lot, $1 at 0.10 lots and $0.10 at 0.01 lots.
| Favourable move | 0.01 lot | 0.10 lots | 1.00 lot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 pips | +$1.00 | +$10.00 | +$100.00 |
| 25 pips | +$2.50 | +$25.00 | +$250.00 |
| 50 pips | +$5.00 | +$50.00 | +$500.00 |
| 100 pips | +$10.00 | +$100.00 | +$1,000.00 |
An adverse move of the same size produces the corresponding gross loss in this example. Pip values differ for other pairs, account currencies and contract specifications. A pip is usually 0.0001 for most forex pairs and 0.01 for JPY pairs.
To compare forex profit by lot size, keep prices and direction fixed and change only the size. Review net results as well as gross P&L, since a fixed fee can have a larger proportional effect on a small trade.
Your prices, contract details and entered charges determine the calculation. Confirm them in your trading platform.
Forex, gold, index and crypto presets are illustrative. Check contract size, tick size, profit currency and volume rules with your broker. The tool supports linear and fixed tick-value methods; inverse and nonlinear contracts are not modelled.
Profit may be generated in a different currency from your account. Conversion uses the estimated exit price where applicable, or a rate you supply. No live exchange rates are fetched, and the applicable broker rate can affect the final result.
The profit or loss for a fixed position and price move is different from the collateral needed to open it. This tool does not check available margin or model margin calls, liquidation or taxes. Check your account and broker rules separately.
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Understand price P&L, pip movement, position size and the effect of the costs you enter.
Created by VIP Algos for educational trade planning. For a platform reference, see MetaTrader’s explanation of profit calculation and account-currency conversion.
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Yes. Enter an exit price that moves against your chosen Buy or Sell direction to estimate a gross loss. Entered fees and financing then determine the net result. You can model a planned stop price, but actual execution and costs may differ.
Gross P&L is the price result before the separately entered fees and financing adjustment. Net P&L subtracts commission and fixed fees, then adds signed financing. If your entry and exit are executable prices, their difference already reflects the spread.
For a standard EUR/USD contract in a USD account, 1 lot is worth $10 per pip. A favourable 50-pip move on 0.10 lots therefore gives 50 × $1 = $50 gross profit. Other pairs, account currencies and contract sizes can have different pip values, so check the instrument settings.
No. The calculator keeps your entered prices and changes the direction used in the calculation. A rise produces a positive gross result for a Buy and a negative gross result for a Sell. Costs can make the net outcomes unequal in size.
Use executable entry and exit prices to reflect the spread. Enter round-trip commission per lot, fixed fees and signed swap or financing separately. The optional slippage allowance adjusts the exit against the trade. These cost inputs default to zero; enter each charge once.
Yes. Choose or enter your account currency. No conversion is needed when it matches the profit currency. For a standard forex pair with the account in its base currency, the tool uses the estimated exit price for conversion. Other combinations need the applicable rate you supply; reverse quote entry is supported.
For the same position size, price move and contract specifications, changing leverage does not change the price P&L. Leverage changes the margin requirement. Taking a larger position changes potential profit and loss. Use the forex margin calculator to check a separate margin scenario.
It includes illustrative presets and editable broker settings for those markets. Match the calculation method, contract size, tick values, profit currency and volume limits to your symbol. Linear and fixed tick-value contracts are supported; inverse or nonlinear contracts are not modelled.
Yes. Enter the actual entry and exit fills, trade direction and position size. Add the trade’s recorded commission, fees and financing. Set extra slippage to zero when it is already reflected in those actual fill prices, and use the applicable conversion rate.
It is net profit or loss divided by the optional account balance or equity you enter, multiplied by 100. In the worked example, $485 net profit on a $10,000 reference account is 4.85%. It is not a return on margin, and it is hidden when you leave the reference account amount blank.
Check actual fill prices, conversion rates, contract size, tick values, fees and financing. Verify that the trade size fits your broker’s minimum, maximum and volume step; invalid sizes are flagged rather than silently resized. Additional charges or unsupported contract rules can also create differences. Your trading statement is the final reference for a closed trade.
Compare your trade’s profit and loss.Enter your own prices, position size and known costs to review the calculation.
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