Profit calculator

Gold moves in dollars per ounce and a standard lot is 100 ounces, so every $1.00 move is worth $100 per lot: a buy from 4,500 to 4,520 on 0.10 lots earns 20 × 100 × 0.10 = $200 before costs. Measured in pips at size 0.10 that is 200 pips at $1 per pip. Sells work the same way in reverse: the price has to fall for the trade to gain.

The spread is paid when you enter: your buy fills at the ask and your stop or target is measured from there. Enter the actual fill price and the spread is already accounted for. If you are planning a trade from a chart, add the spread to the stop distance to be safe, because the stop on a buy is triggered by the bid.

Some accounts charge a fixed fee per standard lot to open and close (a round turn), for example $6 or $7 per lot, instead of a wider spread. Enter that figure and the calculator multiplies it by your lot size and subtracts it from the profit, adds it to the loss and moves the break-even price accordingly.

With equal distances and no commission they are equal. Commission makes the loss slightly larger and the profit slightly smaller. Different distances change the reward-to-risk ratio: 200 pips to the target and 100 to the stop is 1:2, which the risk/reward calculator turns into the win rate you need to break even.

Each layer is a separate entry at its own price with the same lot. The take profit is one price for the whole position, measured from the last layer that filled, and the stop is one price beyond the zone end. Profit at the target is the sum of every filled layer's pips to that price times the pip value times the lot; the loss at the stop is the same sum towards the stop. Layers that did not fill add nothing, which is why the calculator asks how many filled.

Yes, with the contract size caveat: indices are usually $1 per point per lot, oil is often 100 barrels per lot and crypto CFDs vary between brokers. The instrument list carries typical values; use Custom instrument with your broker's specification if they differ.