Educational calculator

Risk Per Trade Calculator

Run the arithmetic, inspect the assumptions, and verify the firm rules separately before relying on the result.

Reviewed August 22, 2026
Private, user-entered planning: account values and trade scenarios stay in this browser. BestProps does not connect to a broker, prop firm, order feed, or live market-data service.

Pre-trade constraints

Plan futures size, stop, target, and worst-case loss

Scenario and contract
Protective stop method
Risk budget and execution stress

Scenario comparison

Compare up to three contract plans

User-input level helpers

Calculate transparent range and level methods

These helpers use only values you enter. They do not fetch prices or identify a setup.

Formula contract, idea coverage, and named holds
  • Risk budget is the lowest enabled account-percent, drawdown-room, remaining-daily, or manual cap. Quantity is the lower of the whole-contract budget quantity and the entered contract cap.
  • Per-contract worst case is absolute entry-to-stop distance times point value, plus user-entered slippage stress and round-trip costs. Stops and targets are rounded conservatively to the tick grid.
  • The planner covers the assigned daily-stop, maximum-loss, contract-cap, take-or-skip, R-multiple, stop, target, planned-trade, position-size, slippage, bracket, reward:risk, contract-comparison, micro/mini, ATR, range, Fibonacci, breakout, pivot, measured-move, trailing-stop, and break-even helper ideas.
  • Held for missing data or strategy contracts: Chandelier exit, mean-reversion bands, time stop, trend-pullback planner, standard-deviation bands, most-traded-contract explorer, options-derived expected move, and VWAP-deviation bands.