Forex Profit & Loss Calculator
Estimate the profit or loss on a trade from its entry and exit price.
Result
—How to Use This Calculator
Select Buy or Sell, enter your entry and exit price, your trade size in units, and — if needed — the current exchange rate. The result is clearly labeled Profit, Loss, or Break-even.
How the Calculation Works
For a Buy, profit comes from the price rising; for a Sell, profit comes from the price falling. The tool converts the price movement into pips and into an estimated dollar result.
Formula
Price Move = Exit − Entry (Buy) or Entry − Exit (Sell)
Pips = Price Move / Pip Size
Result (USD) = Price Move × Trade Size × Exchange Rate (if needed)
Example Calculation
Buying EUR/USD at 1.0850 and exiting at 1.0900 with 100,000 units: price move = 0.0050 = 50 pips, result = 0.0050 × 100,000 = $500 profit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the result labeled instead of colored only?
So the outcome is clear to everyone, including people who have difficulty distinguishing red and green.
What counts as break-even?
A result close enough to zero (within half a cent) is shown as Break-even rather than a very small profit or loss.
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Disclaimer
Forex Profit and Loss Calculator: Know Your Numbers Before and After the Trade
"Forex profit calculator" and "forex PNL calculator" are two of the most common searches from traders reviewing a closed position or planning a new one, and this tool is built to answer both. Enter whether you're buying or selling, your entry and exit price, and your trade size in units, and the calculator instantly converts that price movement into pips and into an estimated dollar result — clearly labeled as a Profit, a Loss, or a Break-even, not just colored red or green.
A lot of basic trading profit loss calculators online only handle the simplest case, where the quote currency is already the trader's account currency. This one goes further: for pairs like USD/JPY or EUR/JPY, where the quote currency isn't USD, you can enter the current exchange rate and get an accurate USD-denominated result rather than a number in the wrong currency. That distinction matters most for traders working with yen pairs or other non-USD-quoted crosses, who are frequently underserved by simpler "calculate forex profit" tools that assume every pair behaves like EUR/USD.
This calculator is equally useful before and after a trade. Before entering a position, plug in a hypothetical entry, your planned exit, and your intended trade size to see the pip profit calculator math play out — a quick sanity check on whether a setup's potential reward matches your expectations. After closing a trade, use the same tool with your actual fill prices to double-check your broker's reported P&L, or to log a clean, rounded figure for your trading journal. Either way, you get pips gained or lost alongside the dollar estimate in a single view.
Because forex profit and loss calculators are so often the first stop after a trade closes, this tool is built to connect naturally to the rest of the site's Forex suite. If a result surprises you, cross-check the pip count against our Pip Calculator, or compare the outcome against what you'd planned using the Risk-to-Reward Calculator. None of this replaces your broker's official trade history, but for a fast, independent gut-check on a trade's math, it's built to be the quickest place to look.
Traders comparing multiple open positions also use this forex trade calculator to quickly test "what if" scenarios — what would this position be worth if price moved another 20 pips, or if I closed half the position now instead of waiting. Because every field recalculates instantly as you type, it's fast enough to run several scenarios back to back without losing your place.