Work Out the Loss With the Same Click — Cambodia
A profit calculator is most useful when it is run twice. Once with the target, to see what the plan is aiming at; once with the stop, to see what being wrong costs. A beginner who only ever runs the first calculation is building an expectation with half the information in it, and the missing half is the one that decides whether the account survives a losing streak.
This tool takes a trade you were going to place and turns it into two numbers: what it makes if the target is reached, and what it costs if the stop is. A beginner should read the second one first. Choose the instrument, direction and volume, then enter the open and close prices. It uses contract specs measured on a live Exness account, so the money value is realistic. Pro mode shows the net result after spread, commission and overnight swap, with return on margin and the break-even exit price; switch to Simple for a quick gross figure.
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Calculations use spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-09-06). Figures are indicative — spreads may fluctuate and actual results will vary.
What does a beginner-sized move actually come to?
On EUR/USD, one pip on 0.01 lot is worth about $0.10, so a 10-pip move in the trade's favour is roughly $1.00 of gross profit. Crossing the measured 0.8-pip spread costs about $0.08, leaving about $0.92 before any commission or overnight swap.
Figures are indicative, from spreads and contract specs measured on a live Exness Standard account (2026-09-06). Converted to a local currency, the same amounts follow the current exchange rate, which changes through the day.
Questions a first-time trader asks
Does this figure include what the trade cost to open?
Which currency is the answer in?
Why enter the stop loss into a profit calculator?
The potential loss looks too big — what should change?
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Both sides, every time
Enter the target and note the number. Then enter the stop-loss price instead and note that number too. The ratio between them is the honest description of the trade.
If the losing figure is uncomfortable, the fix is the lot size and not the stop. Moving the stop closer to make the number look better is the single most common way a plan quietly stops being a plan.
Where this sits in a four-week practice run
Running both sides of a trade before it is placed takes about a minute and changes which trades get taken. In a demo run that minute is free, which is exactly why the habit should be built there.
The journal then holds both numbers next to the outcome. After a few dozen trades the comparison between what was expected and what happened is the most useful page in the whole log.
Where this fits in a beginner's routine
Every trade in a practice run gets written down before it is placed, and both of these figures belong in that entry. Expected gain on one line, expected loss on the next, and afterwards the outcome beside them.
Four weeks of that produces the comparison that actually improves a beginner: what was expected against what happened, on a few dozen trades taken under one unchanged set of rules. It is a dull document to keep and the most valuable thing to own at the end of a first month.
Why the losing number goes in first
A beginner reading only the winning figure is building an expectation out of half the data, and it is the wrong half. The losing figure is the one that decides whether an account survives a run of five bad trades in a row, which every plan eventually has.
Writing it down also removes an argument that happens later. A loss that was calculated and accepted before the order is a cost; the same loss discovered afterwards feels like a failure of the platform, the market or the broker, and none of those explanations improve anything.
There is one wrong response to an uncomfortable number: moving the stop closer so it looks better. That does not reduce the risk, it changes the trade into a different and usually worse one. The lot size is the dial that exists for this.
What four weeks of this produces
A log with expected gain, expected loss and actual outcome on every line answers the question a beginner cannot answer any other way: were the trades that went wrong the ones taken outside the rules?
It usually turns out that they were, and that is a far more useful finding than any adjustment to the strategy itself. A plan followed imperfectly and measured honestly improves; a plan followed loosely and remembered vaguely does not.
How to use this while nothing is at stake
- Take a setup from the written plan, not one invented for the occasion.
- Enter the intended entry and the target, and note the figure that comes out.
- Enter the same entry and the stop-loss price instead, and note that figure too.
- Write both into the journal beside the reason for the entry, before the order is placed.
- When the trade closes, write the actual outcome under them.
- At the end of the week, read the three columns together rather than looking at the balance.
The comparison between expected and actual, across a few dozen logged trades, is the most useful document a first month produces.