Our leverage calculator will help you to calculate three things in crypto, forex, and stocks: your required leverage ratio to open a certain position, your potential profit or loss with added leverage, and your required margin for a position.
Leverage Ratio
Use this to estimate leverage ratio based on position and margin.
Profit
Estimate profit with leverage. Educational only.
Margin Requirement
Calculate required margin. Does not include fees.
How to use the leverage calculators
Follow the quick steps below to get results fast. Field names match what you see in each calculator.
Leverage Calculator
- Enter your Position Size.
- Enter your Margin Requirement.
- Click Calculate Leverage.
Leverage Profit Calculator
- Enter your Entry Price.
- Enter your Exit Price.
- Enter your Position Size.
- Enter your Leverage Ratio.
- Click Calculate Profit.
Margin Calculator
- Enter your Position Size.
- Enter your Leverage Ratio.
- Click Calculate Margin.
What is a leverage calculator?
A leverage calculator is a tool that helps traders calculate the margin requirement based on their ratio for crypto, forex, and stock trading.
Risk management in leveraged markets starts with knowing exactly how much margin each position consumes. A calculator helps you see that number before you commit capital.
f you misjudge margin requirements, position sizing can get distorted fast. With higher ratios, small mistakes compound, and the account drawdown can escalate quickly.
This tool lets you check required margin before you open a position. Simple input, immediate numbers. You can also use it to see the minimum capital needed to carry a specific position size at a given ratio.
Calculate how much of your margin capital you need to add to open a leveraged position at your chosen ratio.
How does the leverage calculator work?
The leverage calculator helps you determine how much buying power you’re using based on your leverage and trade size when trading crypto, for example. It does this by taking three key inputs: your account balance, the leverage ratio you plan to use, and the position size you want to open.
After you enter the inputs, the calculator breaks down your capital at risk and the expanded exposure created by your selected ratio. This gives you a clear view of your exposure before entering a trade — which is crucial for risk management.
Example: a $1,000 account at 10x controls $10,000 in exposure. Small pricing moves now have a much larger effect on your equity. That’s the point of leverage, and also the risk.
The output helps you gauge whether your sizing is sensible. It also makes the leverage-to-exposure relationship obvious, which is essential for anyone managing risk at professional levels.
Why is it important for traders?
A margin calculator is simply a precision tool. It tells you, in exact numbers, how much capital a position will lock up at a specific ratio.
Increasing the leverage ratio reduces the margin required for entry, but it does not reduce the actual economic risk of the trade.
The calculator simply reports the maximum theoretical size the system can handle based on the inputs. It’s an informational figure, not guidance on how large a position should be.
When calculating your position, you need to know five things: the ticker, your deposit currency, the ratio, the position size (or units), and the price of the asset when calculating. If no price is entered, the calculator uses the asset’s current market quote.
Other traders also ask
The margin requirement in any market is easy to calculate if you have a leverage calculator at hand. Use our calculator at the top of this page and follow the short guide to calculate your margin.
The commodity margin is calculated the same way as any other asset class. Follow our guide for commodity leverage calculating and use our calculator at the top of this page to find out how much money is required for your position.