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Find the exact price to put your stop at, from the risk you are willing to take.
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The calculation runs in your browser. Rates used for currency conversion are indicative — check your broker for the exact figure.
Most position size calculators work the other way round: you decide where the stop goes, and they tell you how big to trade. This one is for the trader who has already chosen a size, usually because the platform is open and the position is on, and now needs to know where the stop belongs for that size to cost no more than the intended risk.
The answer is a price, not a distance, because a distance still has to be converted before it can be typed into a platform. Both are shown, along with the money at risk if the stop is hit, so there is no arithmetic left to do under pressure.
When to use it
- When the position is already open at a size you did not choose from a stop.
- When adding to a position and the original stop no longer reflects the risk.
- When a strategy fixes the lot size and lets the stop move.
- To sanity check a stop you placed by eye against what it actually costs.
The risk in money is divided by what one pip costs at your size, giving the distance in pips.
Risk = Balance × Risk %
Cost Per Pip = Pip Value × Lots
Distance = Risk ÷ Cost Per Pip
Stop Price = Entry − Distance (buy) or Entry + Distance (sell)- A buy stop sits below the entry and a sell stop above it. Putting it on the wrong side is the most common mistake here, and the calculator does it for you.
- The distance this gives is what your risk allows, not what the chart suggests. If the two disagree, the size is wrong, not the chart — use the position size calculator instead.
- Spread and slippage are not included. A stop is filled at the price the market reaches, which on a fast move can be worse than the level you set.
- This ignores swap, which matters only if the position is held overnight.
A $10,000 account risking 1% on EUR/USD, buying at 1.0850 with 0.50 lots.
Working: one percent of $10,000 is $100. At $5 a pip, $100 buys twenty pips of room. Buying at 1.0850, twenty pips below is 1.0830. If the chart needs a wider stop than that, the position is too big.
Should the stop come from the chart or from my risk?
From the chart. The level that invalidates the trade is decided by price, not by your account. This calculator answers a different question: given a size you have already committed to, where does the stop have to be so the loss stays inside your limit. If that price is not a sensible level, reduce the size.
Why is my broker’s stop level different?
Brokers enforce a minimum distance from the current price, and some widen it around news. If the stop this gives is closer than that minimum, the platform will refuse it and the size needs to come down.
Does this include the spread?
No. On a buy the stop is triggered by the bid, which sits below the price you see, so the effective distance is slightly smaller than shown. On a tight-spread pair the difference is small; on gold or an exotic it is worth adding a few pips.
What risk percent should I use?
That is a decision about how long you want to survive a losing run, not a number anyone can give you. What this does show is the consequence: the balance line tells you exactly where the account stands if this one is wrong.
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