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

1. Open an 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 the amount you are thinking of putting in. The numbers update as you type.
3. 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.
• 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.