Pick your instrument, enter capital, risk, entry and stop — and I'll give you the exact position size so that, if your stop is hit, you lose only what you decided. It's calculated on your device; nothing is sent to any server.
This list is a selection for practicing risk calculation — it's not the same one you see in Prices. Not everything you follow there (a single stock, for example) is calculated the same way. The default values are from Pepperstone and every broker has its own: adjust them to match your account before trading. With Flow Pro and your account connected, these values come from your own closed trades and there's nothing to adjust.
Fill in the fields to see the suggested position size.
How do I use this? · See example
Example (gold): capital $1,000, risk 1% ($10). You enter at 2350 and your stop is at 2345 ($5 away). Since 1.0 lot = 100 ounces, the calculation is $10 ÷ ($5 × 100) = 0.02 lots. If the stop is hit, you lose about $10 — not a dollar more, no matter how much further it falls.
The pip/point value changes depending on your broker (especially for indices). That's why you can adjust it in the field above. The values it comes with are standard reference values — confirm them with your broker. For safety, lot size is always rounded down: you risk a little less, never more.
Once you connect your cTrader account and trade an instrument, its real pip value shows up here above, calculated from your own trades, and you stop having to enter it by hand.
What Pro adds
PRO plan-
Nothing to set up
The instruments you trade appear at the top of the list with their pip value already loaded. You don't save templates: it's built automatically from your trades.
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Your broker's exact specs
Each instrument's pip value comes from your real trades, with your account currency already converted — not from an approximate standard.
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Daily and weekly risk
How much you put at stake, accumulated in a single day — not what you lost, what you risked. A day that turned out well can still have been reckless.
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History
Check whether you're sticking to your plan trade by trade.
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Drawdown and recovery
How much you need to recover after a streak and how to adjust your risk.
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Your real account (cTrader)
You connect your account in read-only mode and the Performance Lab measures your real risk, trade by trade. It already works, it's not a promise.
Educational risk-management tool. Results are estimates based on your data and your broker's specifications.
Educational content. Not personalized financial advice. Trading in the markets carries a risk of capital loss.
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