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Plan the trade before the market does.
Position size, where the exchange would liquidate you, what one bad day costs and what any loss takes to win back: everything to check before you press buy, on one page.
Before you trade: one check
Three questions most traders answer only after it goes wrong: how big, where does the exchange close you, and has a move like this happened before? Enter your plan once and see all three. Nothing is sent to us.
Why these three, together
- Size from the loss. Decide what you can lose first; the position size follows. Leverage doesn't change that loss, only the margin.
- Liquidation before your stop is the trap. If the exchange's liquidation price sits between your entry and your stop, the plan's stop never matters: you lose the whole margin first.
- History is a reality check. If moves the size of your stop happen often in a single day, expect to be stopped out often, and size for a run of losses.
It replaces our separate position size, liquidation price and leverage risk calculators: each answer is in the one check above. New words? Every ? explains one in plain terms.
For information only, not financial advice. It describes your own plan; it doesn't say whether to trade. Liquidation is shown for isolated margin before fees. Price history: Binance spot daily prices since 1 January 2021.
If it goes wrong: the gain to win it back
Losses and gains aren't symmetrical. A 50% drop needs a 100% gain just to break even. Move the slider and see what any drop really costs you.
A 30% drop needs a +42.9% gain just to get back to where you started.
The table every investor should know
| Drop | Gain needed to break even |
|---|---|
| −10% | +11.1% |
| −15% | +17.6% |
| −20% | +25.0% |
| −30% | +42.9% |
| −40% | +66.7% |
| −50% | +100% |
| −60% | +150% |
| −75% | +300% |
| −90% | +900% |
Why a loss needs a bigger gain
The gain is earned on a smaller amount. Lose 30% of $1,000 and you have $700. Getting the $300 back means earning 42.9% on that $700. The deeper the drop, the faster this gets worse: past about −50%, recovery stops being a bad year and becomes a lost decade.
The formula: gain needed = 1 ÷ (1 − drop) − 1.
What this means for picking a trader
A trader who makes +80% and then loses 50% hasn't made 30%. They've lost 10%: $1,000 becomes $1,800, then $900. That's why we judge any trader by their worst month first.
It's also why CriptoFocus is built around a cap: the worst drop is designed to stay inside 15%, which needs only +17.6% to recover, and never past Bybit Pro's 20%. You can watch how that's going, trade by trade, on the live status page.
For information only, not financial advice. The time estimate assumes a steady yearly return, which real markets never give you.