How do I use the Trade Calculator?

The Trade Calculator answers the question behind every alert: what would this trade mean for MY money? It is free, there is no sign-in, and it runs in your browser.

How to use it

From an alert (the quick way). Every new trade's first post in 📈trade-alerts has a 🧮 Run your numbers link. Tap it and the calculator opens with that trade already filled in: the ticker, the entry (the middle of the alert's entry zone, which you can change), the targets, and the stop loss if the trade has one. The only number you add is the amount you are thinking of putting in.

By hand, for an older alert or a later update:

1. Open the alert's thread in 📈trade-alerts and copy its levels: the entry, the stop loss, and the targets.
2. Enter them in the calculator along with your amount. The numbers update as you type.

Either way: if you plan to sell part of the position at each target, set your percentages. The last target takes whatever is left over, so the plan adds up to 100%.

What it shows you

• Shares and cost. What your amount buys at that entry.
• If the stop is hit. Your maximum loss, in dollars and as a percentage of what you put in. Some trades (often Dip Buying and Long Term) come without a stop loss; the calculator then leaves out the risk figures and says why.
• Per target. What each target pays, and reward vs risk: how much one share gains at that target against what it loses at the stop. Under 1× means that target pays less than the stop costs.
• How it could play out. The realistic paths, best outcome first: every target reached; reaching a target and then being stopped at an earlier one; taking partial profit and then being stopped at your entry; the same but stopped at your stop loss; and the straight stop-out.

"Stopped at TP1" and "stopped at your entry" mean you sold part of the position at a target and then moved your stop loss up, to a level you had already reached or to your entry price. If price falls back to that level, the rest of the shares exit there.

Worth knowing

• The numbers are arithmetic on what you type. They are not advice and not a prediction, and only you can decide how much to put into any trade.
• Real fills differ: slippage, fees and taxes all move the actual result, and a stop does not guarantee the exact price you get.

If the calculator will not load or a result looks wrong, email support@shecaninvest.com with the alert you were working from and the numbers you entered.