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Free day trading profit calculator

This day trade calculator shows your net profit or loss after commissions, and the 24 day trading calculators below cover risk, options, forex and taxes.

Net profit or loss

+$150.00

Return on the position

3.00%

Calculation
Direction
Return on the position
3.00%
Gross profit or loss
+$150.00
Commissions, both orders
$0.00
Position value at entry
$5,000.00
Break-even exit price
$25.000

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How the day trading calculator works

Profit on a long trade is the exit price minus the entry price, times the number of shares, minus the commission on both the buy and the sell. A short trade reverses the subtraction. Buying 200 shares at $25.00 and selling at $25.75 makes $150 before commissions, which is a 3% return on the $5,000 position.

The daily profit view answers a different question: what steady daily gain would do to a balance. At 0.5% a day, $10,000 becomes about $11,104 after 21 trading days. Real accounts lose on some days, so read that as arithmetic and test your actual win rate in the day trading simulator.

Neither view includes taxes, slippage, borrow fees on a short or interest on margin. The day trading tax estimator covers the tax side.