Forex Risk Calculator

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The forex risk calculator calculates the amount of money you are risking on a given forex trade. Forex trading rule #1: Use sound risk management! Your risk on a given trade should never exceed 1-2% max of your account balance. Read more about money management.

How the calculator works: An example: You have 30,000 USD in your account. You enter a trade with a 30 pip stop loss and 1 % risk of your trading account balance. Upon calculation, you could enter 10 mini lots or 1 standard trading lot.

Account Balance Enter Numbers only (i.e. 1000)
% Risk Of Account Balance Example: Enter 2 for 2% risk
Stop Loss (in pips)
Mini Lots (10K) 10,000 trade size
Standard Lots (100K) 100,000 trade size
Risk at Stop Loss ($) you are risking this amount of money



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