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Trading Profit Calculator

Trading profit calculator

Work out what a trade made or lost after commissions and fees — long or short, stocks, options or futures — and how it compares with the risk you planned.
Free
No sign-up
Runs in your browser
Direction
Instrument
Entry price
$
Exit price
$
Shares
Total fees
$
Commissions and fees for the whole round trip.
Stop loss (optional)
$
Adds the trade's R-multiple.
Net profit / loss
+$198.00
Gross +$200.00 · fees $2.00
Return on position
+3.96%
R-multiple
+1.98R
Position cost
$5,000.00

Stop calculating by hand

SetMetric is a free trading journal that does this math for every trade you take — position risk, R-multiples, win rate, expectancy and drawdown — and shows you which setups, times and habits make or lose you money.

How trading profit is calculated

Long trade: profit = (exit price − entry price) × quantity × multiplier − fees.
Short trade: profit = (entry price − exit price) × quantity × multiplier − fees.
Return on the position is the net profit divided by the position's cost (entry price × quantity × multiplier). If you enter your stop loss, the calculator also shows the trade's R-multiple: net profit divided by the risk you planned.

Why R-multiples beat dollar P&L for review

A $300 win means something different on a $100 risk than on a $1,000 risk. Measuring each result in R — multiples of what you risked — lets you compare trades of different sizes and see whether your winners are really larger than your losers.

Frequently asked questions

Subtract the exit (buy-to-cover) price from the entry (short) price, multiply by the number of shares, and subtract fees. Shorting 100 shares at $30 and covering at $27 makes $300 before fees.
Yes. Enter your total fees for the round trip — commissions, exchange and regulatory fees — and the net profit and return include them.
Yes. Enter the option premium as the entry and exit price, the number of contracts as the quantity and 100 as the multiplier.
It depends on your timeframe and risk. For active traders, the more useful measure is the R-multiple: whether winners average more than 1R and losses stay at or under 1R.

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