Position sizing calculator - helping you determine how many shares you can safely trade when stock trading.

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Position Sizing Calculator

  
 
Account Size:
  
Risk Tolerance:
   % of Account
Stop Loss Size:
  
Unit Cost :
   $ number of dollars per point this security moves
Given the above data, your Position Size is:
    2
Shares or contracts, to the nearest whole contract.

 
 

Notes:-

  • Account Size:- How much money you currently have in your stock trading account
  • Risk Tolerance:- How much of that money you are prepared to risk on a single stock trade in percentage terms (e.g enter 5 if your risk tolerance is 5%).
  • Stop Loss Size:- how many points you want your stop loss to be for the instrument you are stock trading. For example, on the S&P, if you wanted a 2 point stoploss, enter 2. If you are trading IBM, and want a 1 dollar stoploss, enter 1.
  • Unit Cost:- The amount in dollars that this security changes for every 1 point of movement. For example, for a stock priced in dollars, you would enter 1. For an S&P emini contract you would enter 50 (because an emini moves 50 dollars per point). For a full size S&P contract you would enter 250.

Note:- the Position Sizing Calculator is offered for entertainment purposes only - there is no substitute for real-world market experience when deciding how to put on a trade.We make no warranties about this free tool's accuracy or availability and stress that it does NOT make recommendations about particular investments under any circumstances. The usual disclaimers appy (see disclaimer page). We will not enter into any email correspondence or other discussion about this free webtoy, even with a successful trader.