Stop Loss & Take Profit Calculator
Reverse-solve buy or sell stop-loss and take-profit prices from an entered position, account-currency pip value, maximum net loss, desired net profit and one completed-trade cost estimate. The calculator places both levels on the directionally correct side of entry without selecting a market structure, strategy or recommended risk amount.
Enter one position and money boundary
Choose the instrument and position quantity, then enter the exact account-currency conversion when required. The same entered completed-trade cost is included in both the maximum-loss and desired-profit equations.
Reverse-solved exit prices
Derived from Entered Exit Planning model 1.0.0.
How money limits are converted into exit prices
The first layer is position pip value. Position units equal the selected instrument’s stored standard contract quantity multiplied by entered lots and the selected standard, mini, micro or nano multiplier. Quote-currency pip value equals units multiplied by the instrument pip size. A manual conversion is then applied once when the account currency differs from the quote currency.
The maximum-loss input is treated as a net completed-trade budget. Because the entered cost also consumes that budget, only maximum loss minus cost remains available for adverse price movement. The cost must therefore be lower than the maximum net loss. If the user intends a gross price-movement budget instead, the cost field should be zero and costs should be analyzed separately.
The profit target is also net of the same entered cost. The target must first earn back that cost and then earn the desired net profit, so target movement money equals target profit plus cost. This makes the target distance slightly larger and the stop distance slightly smaller than a no-cost calculation using the same money entries.
Direction controls the signs. A buy stop is below entry and a buy target is above entry. A sell stop is above entry and a sell target is below entry. The model rejects any reverse-solved stop at or below zero, but it does not compare the result with the current Bid, Ask, broker stops level, freeze level or minimum tick.
Price-distance reward-to-risk compares target pips with stop pips. Net-goal reward-to-risk compares desired profit with maximum net loss. When cost is positive those ratios are intentionally different, because cost reduces the price movement available to the stop and increases the movement required at the target.
The instrument metadata is a reproducible site convention, not a universal broker contract. MetaTrader exposes symbol-specific contract size, pip or point conventions, tick size, tick value, volume minimum and volume step. The actual broker symbol specification remains the controlling source before an order is prepared.
Worked example from the audited fixture
The audited EUR/USD buy fixture enters 1.08500, one stored standard lot, a USD account, USD 100 maximum net loss, USD 200 desired net profit and USD 10 entered completed-trade cost.
The stored EUR/USD convention produces USD 10 per pip for this entered position. USD 90 remains for adverse price movement, so the stop distance is 9 pips and the reverse-solved stop is 1.08410.
The target must produce USD 210 of gross price movement to leave USD 200 after the entered cost. That is 21 pips and a 1.08710 target. Price-distance reward-to-risk is 1:2.333, while the net money goals remain 1:2.
How to interpret the result
- Start with the pip-value audit row. If the instrument, contract quantity, lot multiplier, account currency or conversion direction is wrong, both exit prices will be wrong even though the direction looks plausible.
- Treat the stop price as the mathematical level that matches the entered budget under constant pip value and the entered cost. It is not evidence that the price aligns with volatility, market structure, invalidation logic or a broker’s permitted stop distance.
- Treat the target price as the level that matches the entered net-money goal. The calculator does not estimate the probability that this level will be reached, the time required, or whether moving the target changes the strategy’s realized win rate.
- Use the price-distance ratio when comparing pure geometric distances. Use the net-goal ratio when checking the money amounts you entered. Do not describe either ratio as expected value without a defensible outcome distribution and a representative cost record.
- Recalculate when position quantity changes. Pip value scales with the entered position, so reducing lots increases the required pip distances for the same money goals and increasing lots decreases them.
- Before entering an order, verify the current symbol specification and the broker’s Stop Loss and Take Profit rules. A displayed stop level is not a guaranteed fill, and an attached target or stop may be rejected when it violates distance, tick or price-side rules.
Choose the exit-planning view that matches the question
These three pages share governance and presentation, but they do not answer the same job. Keeping the jobs separate prevents a fixed-level calculation from being mistaken for trailing-platform behavior or a performance sensitivity table.
| Tool | Primary inputs | Output | Hard boundary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop Loss & Take Profit | Position, money limits and entered cost | Reverse-solved fixed exit prices | No placement recommendation |
| Trailing Stop | Entered favorable reference and explicit rule | One stepped applied-stop scenario | No live terminal behavior |
| Win Rate Matrix | Entered win rates, average wins and cost in R | Two-outcome EV sensitivity grid | No estimated edge |
Assumptions and limitations
- No live Bid, Ask, spread, quote timestamp, chart, account, position, order, broker server or symbol specification is connected.
- One entered completed-trade cost is applied equally to the stop and target scenarios. Variable spread, asymmetric slippage, commission tiers, financing, conversion and tax are not independently modeled.
- The reverse-solved prices assume constant pip value over the entered distance. Cross-currency conversion and non-linear products can change monetary sensitivity as price moves.
- Stored instrument metadata can differ from the selected broker’s contract size, tick size, tick value, volume rules and symbol suffix.
- A stop price is a trigger level, not a guaranteed execution price. Gaps, fast markets, slippage, rejection and different Bid or Ask trigger rules can change the realized loss.
- No stop, target, risk budget, profit goal, position size, instrument, broker, strategy, signal or trade is recommended.
Sources and methodology
The arithmetic is independently fixture-tested. The external references define platform fields, execution boundaries or statistical concepts; they do not verify any entered price, broker specification, cost, win rate or future outcome.
- MetaTrader 5 Help — Executing Trades — Official platform reference for attached Stop Loss and Take Profit orders, price-side rules and broker-controlled stop conditions.
- MQL5 Reference — Symbol Properties — Official definitions for point, tick, contract and volume properties that prevent a universal contract-size assumption.
- Investor.gov — Stop, Stop-Limit and Trailing Stop Orders — Official execution-risk reference explaining that a stop price is not a guaranteed execution price.
Frequently asked questions
- It calculates the entered position’s account-currency pip value, subtracts entered cost from the maximum loss budget, adds entered cost to the desired net profit, converts both money amounts to pips and places the levels on the correct side of entry.
- If the maximum loss is a net completed-trade limit, cost uses part of that limit. The adverse price movement can therefore consume only maximum loss minus entered cost.
- The gross price movement must first recover the entered cost and then leave the desired net profit. Target movement money therefore equals desired profit plus cost.
- No. It solves the level implied by entered money, volume and pip-value assumptions. It does not inspect volatility, chart structure, invalidation logic or suitability.
- No. A stop level is not a guaranteed fill. Gaps, fast markets, spread, slippage, broker trigger rules and rejected execution can produce a different realized result.
- The position pip value starts in the instrument quote currency. When that differs from the account currency, the page needs one explicitly directed rate to convert the pip value once.
- Yes, using the stored site metadata, but verify the broker’s exact XAU/USD or XAG/USD contract, tick, point, pip and volume specifications before relying on the output.
- This page reverse-solves stop and target prices from money goals. The Risk Reward Calculator starts with three entered prices and measures their geometry; it does not solve the exit levels from money.
Continue from reverse-solved levels to the rest of the plan
Verify symbol, cost and execution terms
Before translating an entered scenario into an order, check the exact symbol contract, tick and volume settings, Stop Loss and Take Profit rules, spread, commission, financing and execution policy for the broker entity and account available in your jurisdiction.
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