Position Size Calculator
Shares to buy from your risk budget and stop-loss, never more than your capital buys
Shares to buy
50
- Position value
- ₹1,25,000
- Loss at the stop
- ₹5,000
- Gain at the target
- ₹10,000
- Reward to risk
- 2.00 : 1
Charges and gaps through the stop are not included in the loss.
The working
- Risk budget
- ₹5,000
- Risk a share
- ₹100.00
- Position as % of capital
- 25.0%
- Break-even win rate
- 33.3%
- Charges
- ₹125
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How this is calculated
Formula
shares = ⌊capital × risk% ÷ |entry − stop|⌋, at most ⌊capital ÷ entry⌋
With your numbers
- 1Risk budget₹5,00,000 × 1.00% = ₹5,000
- 2Risk a share|₹2,500.00 − ₹2,400.00| = ₹100.00
- 3Shares50
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