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Estimate gold trading profit or loss from your entry price, exit price and position size. Use this free XAUUSD profit calculator with lots or troy ounces, your broker’s contract size and the trading costs you enter.
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Need help? Read the stepsEstimates use your entered prices and broker settings. Presets are examples, not live gold quotes. Check troy ounces per lot, use executable prices to reflect the spread, and enter each fee or financing adjustment once.
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Select XAUUSD or another available gold quote and enter your account currency. Prices are quoted per troy ounce in the selected currency.
Enter your size in lots or troy ounces. Match “Troy ounces per 1 lot” to your broker’s gold symbol specification.
Choose Buy or Sell, then enter executable entry and exit prices. Add known costs, signed financing and any required conversion rate.
Review the position in ounces, directional price move, gross profit or loss and net result after the charges you entered.
Start with the contract size. The example uses 100 troy ounces per lot. A broker with a different contract size gives a different result for the same number of lots. Verify the symbol settings before comparing scenarios.
An XAUUSD profit calculator applies the change in the gold price to your position in troy ounces. XAU represents gold and USD is the quote currency: an XAUUSD price of 2,500 means $2,500 per troy ounce.
For a linear gold contract, a Buy trade has a positive gross result when the exit price is above the entry. A Sell trade has a positive gross result when the exit is below the entry. A move against the selected direction creates a gross loss.
The gold trading profit calculator separates that price result from commission, fixed fees and financing. If your account uses a different currency, supply the applicable conversion rate. The tool does not fetch live quotes or exchange rates.
Buy P&L = (Exit − Entry) × Ounces
Sell P&L = (Entry − Exit) × Ounces
Suppose you Buy 0.10 lots of XAUUSD at $2,500 per troy ounce and exit at $2,530. With a 100-ounce contract per lot, your position is 10 troy ounces. Assume a USD account and no additional slippage.
If round-trip commission is $7 per lot, the commission on 0.10 lots is $0.70. Add $1 fixed fees and a −$2 financing adjustment: net P&L = $300 − $0.70 − $1 − $2 = +$296.30.
For a Sell using the same entry and exit, gross P&L is −$300 and net P&L is −$303.70 with those same charges. These sample prices explain the calculation; they are not live prices or expected returns.
With a 100-ounce gold contract, 0.01 lots represents 1 troy ounce, 0.10 lots represents 10 ounces and 1.00 lot represents 100 ounces. A larger position increases both the gain from a favourable move and the loss from an adverse move.
| Favourable move per oz | 0.01 lot 1 oz | 0.10 lots 10 oz | 1.00 lot 100 oz |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1 | +$1 | +$10 | +$100 |
| $5 | +$5 | +$50 | +$500 |
| $10 | +$10 | +$100 | +$1,000 |
| $30 | +$30 | +$300 | +$3,000 |
An equally sized adverse move gives the corresponding gross loss under these assumptions. These are example contract specifications. Your broker’s gold contract, fees and account-currency conversion can change the result.
Gold pip and point conventions vary between brokers. The move from 2,500 to 2,530 is a $30 change per ounce in XAUUSD, regardless of how a platform labels its pips.
Set the calculator’s minimum price tick to your broker’s increment. With a 0.01 tick, that $30 move is 3,000 ticks. On a 0.10-lot position with 100 ounces per lot, one 0.01 tick is worth $0.10 before costs and conversion.
If you are looking for a gold lot size calculator or XAUUSD lot size calculator, first decide whether you need to size a trade from a risk budget or check the P&L of a size you already have. This tool calculates profit and loss for the position you enter; it does not automatically solve for lots from a risk percentage.
For a linear XAUUSD contract in a USD account, a starting calculation before costs is: lots = cash risk ÷ (entry-to-stop distance per ounce × ounces per lot). For example, a $100 risk budget, $10 price distance and 100 ounces per lot gives 0.10 lots before fees, slippage or financing.
Enter that size in the calculator and use the planned stop as the exit to test the loss scenario. Add the known charges, check the broker’s volume increments and adjust the size if needed. Execution can move beyond the stop price, so this is an estimate rather than a guaranteed maximum loss.
Buy 0.10 lots at 2,500
Planned stop / exit: 2,490
The result depends on your contract, currency and entered charges.
Confirm troy ounces per lot, minimum volume, maximum volume and lot increment. If using fixed tick payouts, verify tick size, profit and loss tick values and settlement currency. The tool flags invalid trade sizes rather than silently resizing them.
XAUUSD produces a USD price result under the linear method. A GBP, EUR or other account needs the applicable conversion rate if its currency differs from settlement. XAUEUR, XAUGBP, XAUAUD and XAUJPY presets are also available. No live rates are fetched.
Executable entry and exit prices reflect the spread. Enter round-trip commission per lot, fixed fees and total signed financing separately. Use zero extra slippage for actual fills. Margin requirements, liquidation and taxes are outside this calculation.
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Yes. Choose XAUUSD, enter your direction, size and entry and exit prices, then calculate. A favourable move produces a positive gross result; an adverse move produces a negative gross result. Entered costs and financing determine the net result.
With a 100-troy-ounce contract per lot, 0.01 lots is 1 ounce. A $1 move per ounce then produces $1 of gross profit or loss in XAUUSD, depending on direction. Check your broker’s ounces per lot because the contract size is editable and may differ.
At 100 ounces per lot, a favourable $10-per-ounce XAUUSD move gives $10 gross on 0.01 lots, $100 on 0.10 lots and $1,000 on 1.00 lot. The same adverse movement gives the corresponding gross loss. These figures assume a USD account and exclude costs.
It calculates P&L for the lots or ounces you enter. It does not automatically calculate lots from account risk and stop distance. The lot-size section explains a starting risk-based formula and shows how to test a chosen size using the stop price as the exit.
Gross P&L is the price result before separately entered fees and financing. Net P&L subtracts commission and fixed fees, then adds signed financing. A financing credit is positive; a financing charge is negative. Costs default to zero, so include the applicable charges yourself.
Broker conventions for gold pips and points differ. This tool shows price movement per ounce and ticks based on your entered minimum price tick. For example, a $1 price move contains 100 ticks when the tick size is 0.01. Verify that increment with your broker.
Yes. Choose or type your account currency. If it differs from the settlement currency, enter the exchange rate applicable to the trade. Reverse quote entry is available. No live exchange rates are fetched or silently assumed.
Use executable entry and exit prices to reflect the spread. Add round-trip commission per lot, fixed fees and signed swap or financing in account currency. Optional exit slippage adjusts the exit against the selected direction in minimum price ticks. Avoid counting costs or slippage twice when using actual fills.
No. Your entered prices stay the same and the calculation direction changes. For a linear contract, a price rise produces a positive gross result for a Buy and a negative gross result for a Sell. With fees, the net gain and net loss will generally differ in size.
The tool supports linear and broker-defined fixed tick-value calculations. Match ounces per contract, tick size, tick payouts, settlement currency and volume rules. For a contract traded only in whole numbers, set minimum size and increment accordingly. Inverse or nonlinear contracts are not modelled.
For the same linear position size and price movement, leverage does not change gross price P&L. It changes the collateral requirement. Increasing the position changes potential profit and loss. This calculator does not check available margin or model liquidation.
Yes. Enter the actual entry and exit fills, trade direction, position size, recorded charges and applicable conversion rate. Leave additional slippage at zero when already reflected in those fills. Compare the result with your broker’s final trading statement.
When you enter an account balance or equity, the tool calculates net P&L divided by that reference amount, multiplied by 100. It is a trade result relative to the entered account figure, not a return on margin or a forecast. Leave the reference amount blank to see cash results only.
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