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Forex Profit Calculator
The Profit and Cashback Calculator is a powerful tool for forex traders, helping you accurately calculate potential profits and cashback for your trades.
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Enter your planning values to organise a clear risk estimate before placing a trade.
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About Forex Profit Calculator
Use our Forex Profit Calculator to quickly estimate potential profits or losses (in monetary value and pips) for your trade position based on real-time market data, trade direction, and trade size.
What is a Forex Profit Calculator?
A Forex Profit Calculator simulates potential profits or losses generated by a trade position based on the difference between the open price and close price. It calculates results based on your trade direction (Buy/Sell), lot size (or units), and the decimal precision of the price quote (pip value rules).
How to Use the Forex Profit Calculator
1) Select the Instrument
Traders can select major, minor, and exotic currency pairs, global indices, popular cryptocurrencies, as well as commodities such as Crude Oil, Gold, and Silver.
2) Select Account Deposit Currency
Select your trading account currency, and the system will automatically convert the calculation results into that currency for easy profit and loss assessment.
3) Select Trade Direction and Trade Size
Choose Buy or Sell and enter the lot size (or units). A standard forex lot is 100,000 currency units, though contract sizes may vary for different instruments.
4) Enter Open and Close Prices
Enter your open price and close price. For a Buy trade, if the close price is lower than the open price, it will result in a loss; the opposite applies for a Sell trade.
5) Click "Calculate" to View Results
The results will display the estimated profit or loss amount (converted into your deposit currency) as well as the pip movement.
Calculation Disclaimer
This tool is designed to estimate profits, losses, and pip changes resulting from price fluctuations. Actual trading P&L may be affected by spreads, commissions, slippage, and overnight swaps. Please refer to your trading platform for final settlement details.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Does the profit calculator include spreads and commissions?
Not by default. It primarily calculates P&L based on price movement. For more precise results, you should manually subtract spreads and commissions from the total outcome.
Why do different instruments have different pip values?
Different asset classes have different decimal precision and contract sizes (e.g., forex, gold, indices, cryptocurrencies), which results in varying pip values and values per pip.
What is the difference between lots and units?
A lot is a standardized unit of transaction size, while units represent the actual quantity traded. Some instruments allow you to toggle between lots and units.
What is the difference between Buy and Sell calculations?
Buy trades: Profit when price rises, loss when price falls. Sell trades: Profit when price falls, loss when price rises.