Trading cost calculator
Enter how often you trade, what each round trip costs and what you earn per trade before costs. See how much of your edge the costs take, and the break-even edge you need.
Short answer: your average profit per trade before costs has to be larger than your cost per round trip before you earn anything. The more you trade, the more this matters.
01Calculator
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Net profit per trade | - |
| Costs per year | - |
| Gross profit per year | - |
| Net profit per year | - |
| Share of gross profit taken by costs | - |
| Break-even profit per trade before costs | - |
02An example from our tests
The MACD crossover on ES futures made +$4,088 before costs over 3,249 trades, about +$1 a trade, against costs of about $31 a trade. After costs it lost $95,852. Read the MACD crossover backtest. Across all 404 of our variants 2 passed every gate; see what we found.
The calculator is an illustration: it takes your numbers as given. A real edge also has to survive out-of-sample data and a random-entry control; see how to backtest a trading strategy.