Enter your account size, risk tolerance, and stop distance. Get the exact number of contracts you should trade. No guessing.
Most professionals risk 0.5–2% per trade.
Max Dollar Risk—
Risk Per Contract—
Contracts to Trade—
Actual Dollar Risk—
Actual Risk %—
Tip: Your account is too small for full-size contracts at this stop distance. Switch to MNQ — you can trade 0 micro contracts with $0 actual risk.
Risk:Reward Check (optional)
Risk:Reward—
Verdict—
Position Sizing Rules
Always round DOWN contracts, never up. 1.8 means trade 1.
If the answer is 0, switch to micros. That's not failure — it's discipline.
Size based on stop distance, not conviction. A 10/10 setup gets sized the same as a 6/10.
Never manually override the calculator. If you're arguing with the output, that's ego.
Recalculate every session, every trade. Same contract count every day = lazy risk management.
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