Crypto futures position calculator

What the calculator shows

You enter the deposit, trading pair, entry price, direction and leverage. The calculator returns the position size and every number you need to know before pressing the button, not after.

The main one is the risk amount. Not the percent of price movement, but the dollars that leave your deposit if the stop is hit. That is the number traders usually skip when they enter on emotion.

• Margin - how much of the deposit goes into the position
• Position size - margin times leverage
• Risk in dollars and the stop price
• Profit at each of the three take-profits
• Risk-to-reward at the first take-profit

How to calculate position size from the stop

The right order is the reverse of the habitual one. First the stop - where the trade idea is cancelled. Then the amount you are ready to lose if it is hit. And only from these two numbers - the size. Leverage comes last: you do not choose it, it falls out of the calculation.

Formula: position size = risk in dollars / distance to stop in percent.

Example. Deposit 1,000 $, risk per trade 1% - that is 10 $. Entry at 100 $, stop at 98.5 $, distance 1.5%. Size - 10 / 0.015 ≈ 667 $, leverage about 0.7x. If the stop is closer, at 0.3%, the size grows to 3,333 $ and leverage to 3.3x, while the risk stays the same 10 $. High leverage by itself does not mean high risk - risk is set by the distance to the stop.

This calculator works from the other side - from leverage: set it and look at the risk amount. If it is more than you are ready to lose, lower the leverage until the numbers match. In the NMNH.TRADE terminal the order is direct: you place the stop on the chart and the size is calculated for your risk automatically.

• Fees: a market entry and exit are two taker fees - on a tight stop, include them in the risk
• Lot step: the exchange rounds the size down to its step
• Liquidation: at 50x it is about 2% of price movement away, the stop has to sit before it

How to use it

Choose LONG or SHORT, enter the deposit and pair. The entry price can be typed in or pulled from the exchange with the button next to the field. Leverage is set with the slider from 1x to 400x. Press Calculate.

If you are signed in and your account is connected, the deposit fills in by itself - from your exchange balance.

Why the stop is so tight at high leverage

With leverage, liquidation is roughly 100% divided by leverage away: about 10% of price movement at 10x, about 1% at 100x. A stop placed beyond liquidation will never trigger: the exchange closes the position first.

That is why the stop here is adaptive: at high leverage the calculator places it with a margin before the liquidation price. From 150x it also warns that such a stop can be hit by ordinary market noise.

Risk warnings

If the risk per trade is too large for your deposit, the calculator says so right under the result. It is not a ban, it is a reason to lower leverage or size before the entry.