Profit making is the main aim of every crypto trader, although loss is sometimes inevitable. Therefore, you need to learn how to calculate your profit or loss, as the case may be. Here is a simple, but powerful calculator for calculating your crypto trading profit and loss, especially for BTC and USDT trading pairs for spot traders. You will also learn how to manually calculate percentage profit or loss for any crypto trade.
BTC & USDT Crypto Trading Pairs Profit/Loss Calculator App for Spot Traders
Features of the Crypto Profit/Loss Calculator & How it Works
Below are some unique features of the calculator app and how to use it:
User-Friendly and Responsive Interface
The calculator has a very user-friendly and responsive interface that can be used on any device, both mobile and PC. Also it is very interactive. So any trader can use it easily, even newbie crypto traders.
Supports 2 Main Crypto Trading Pairs – BTC and USDT
These are the 2 popular trading pairs most crypto traders use. The calculator allows you to select one of these 2 trading pairs and then runs the profit/loss calculation for you seamlessly.
Suitable for Traders who Buy a Coin at different Price Ranges
In a bid to make more profit or reduce loss, most traders buy a coin in batches, at different prices. This method is popular known as Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA). Most times, some of these crypto traders who buy a coin in multiple batches find it difficult to calculate their profit/loss effectively. But this crypto calculator makes the whole profit/loss calculation process very easy.
All you need to do is to enter required purchase details for each of the batches, as shown in the screenshot below.
Then the calculator app will calculate the cumulative average unit price of the coin, the total number of units of the coin you bought and your total investment amount, either in BTC or USDT (based on the trading pair you selected).
Performs Advanced Profit/Loss Calculations
After the entering the required coin purchase details (such as trading pair, trading type, unit batch purchase price, coin name and number of units bought) and then pressing the Calculate button, the app gives you a summary of your coin purchase, depending on the number of purchase batches you entered.
NOTE: Always maintain one trading pair (BTC or USDT) and trading type (Long Term and Short Term) when entering the purchase details a coin you bought at different price levels. This is to help the calculator work accurately and return the correct result.
To calculate the selling price that will give you a certain percentage profit, the number of units to sell at this price level and the price that will trigger your stop-loss, press the More Calculations button as shown in the screenshot below.
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You will be required to specify your profit taking criteria/details, such as:
- Take Profit Price % Level: Depending on your trading/profit taking strategy, you should have a price target where you will take profit. Example, for most long term trades, it is expected that you remove your capital alongside a tangible profit, once price of the coin doubles (that is 100% from your entry price or average entry price). So in this case, you enter 100 in this field. For short term trades, the profit-taking levels are usually lower (say from 10% or 15% upwards). It all depends on your profit target for that particular alt-coin.
- Extra % Profit to Pull Out (For Long Term Trades Only): Here, you specify the extra percentage profit you wish to remove alongside your capital once your profit-taking target is reached. It is always advisable to remove enough profit alongside your capital, so that you don’t give back everything to the market when there is a sudden market/price dip. For instance, to remove extra 50% profit, enter 50 in the appropriate field in the app. If you wish to remove only your capital at your target price level, then enter 0 in this field.
- Stop Loss % Level: Crypto trades can go two ways; either the profit side (up) or the loss side (down). As a smart trader, before you buy an alt-coin, you need to know the maximum percentage loss you can bear/take in the trade, such that once the price of the coin drops to a certain level, you sell off at a loss, in order not to incur more loss and to preserve your trading capital (this is called stop-loss). Exchanges like Binance allow you to set stop-loss for any trade, usually referred to as OCO (One Cancels the Other). For most smart alt-coin traders, their maximum stop-loss is between 5% to 10% from their entry price or average entry price. So you need to specify your maximum percentage stop-loss in the appropriate field in the app. To specify a maximum stop-loss of 5%, enter 5 in the appropriate field in the app.
After entering the above required details, you press the Calculate button as shown below.
Supports both Trading Types – Long Term and Short Term
You can use the app to calculate your profit/loss for any type of trade, long term or short term trade. Long term trades are trades you wish to hold for a long term. Most times, this trading strategy is applied when trading gem alt-coins that have higher future potentials. The profit target for long term trades are usually higher than those of short term trades, mostly from 100% and above. A smart way of trading coins for long term is to remove your capital and some profit once the price goes up by 100%. The remaining portion can now be held till whenever the trader is satisfied with the returns and then wishes to sell off. It could be for many months or even years.
While short term trades are trades you just buy and sell off after a small profit has been made from the trade. Short term trading can be called Scalping or Day trading, especially if it is bought and sold off the same day, after a little profit has been made, say 15% to 50%.
You can use this crypto profit and loss calculator app to calculate your profit/loss for any of these trading strategies.
For short term trades, you only specify your desired profit level in the Take Profit % Level field. You can enter 0 in the Extra % Profit to Pull Out (For Long Term Trades Only) field. Enter a value in the Stop Loss % Level field. Then press the Calculate button. Now use the Take profit price (unit selling price) and the Stop loss price values calculated by the calculator to set your sell order as shown in the screenshot below. Since it is a short term trade, you can sell off your whole bag of the coin if you wish, using the selling price that the app calculated.
For long term trades, you need to take out extra profit when the price has gone up to a certain percentage, say 100%. So you need to enter a positive, non-zero value in the Extra % Profit to Pull Out (For Long Term Trades Only) field. Then you enter the desired values in the other fields and then press the Calculate button. Now use the Take Profit Price (Unit Selling Price), the Number of Units to Sell, the Number of Units Remaining (Your Pure Profit) and the Stop Loss Price values calculated by the calculator to set your sell order. Check out the screenshot below and pay special attention to the highlighted returned values.
NOTE: If you wish to use this calculator to run the profit/loss calculation of a different coin, close the pop window of the app and then press the RESET button. It will take you to the home page of the calculator app.
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How to Calculate Percentage Profit Manually for any Crypto Trade
If you wish to learn how to calculate percentage profit and loss for crypto trades, then pay special attention to this section of the article.
From the basic knowledge of business mathematics;
Unit Profit = Unit Selling price – Unit Cost Price
For crypto trades, unit cost price is your entry price, while unit selling price is the price at which you wish to sell the coin.
NOTE: If the formula returns a negative value, then you sold the coin at a loss.
Percentage Profit = ((Unit Selling Price – Unit Cost Price) / Unit Cost Price) * 100
Total Investment Capital = Unit Cost Price * Number of Units of the Coin Bought; Assuming the trading fee is negligible.
Unit Selling Price to Sell a coin in order to Earn a Desired Percentage Profit
= Unit Cost Price + (Desired Percentage Profit * Unit Cost Price)
For example, in order to earn 10% profit from a trade,
Unit Selling Price = Unit Cost Price + (0.1 * Unit Cost Price)
= Unit Cost Price * (1 + 0.1) = 1.1 * Unit Cost Price
This concept can be used to calculate the unit selling price that will yield any percentage profit.
Below is the summary of the shortcut for calculating the unit selling price that will yield any percentage profit:
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For 20% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 1.2
- For 30% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 1.3
- For 40% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 1.4
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For 50% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 1.5
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For 100% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 2
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For 200% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 3
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For 900% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 10
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For 1000% Profit: Multiply your entry price by 11 ….etc.
How to Calculate Percentage Loss Manually for any Crypto Trade
To calculate the unit price of a coin after a certain percentage loss, we can also apply the above concept.
Unit Price of a coin after a certain Percentage Loss
= Unit Cost Price * (1 – Incurred Percentage Loss)
For example, after a 10% loss from a trade, the unit price of the coin will now reduce to
= Unit Cost Price * (1 – 0.1) = 0.9 * Unit Cost Price
This concept can be used to calculate the unit price of a coin after any percentage loss.
Below is the summary:
- After 20% Loss: The Unit Price of the coin will be (1 – 10%) * Unit Cost Price
- After 30% Loss: The Unit Price of the coin will be (1 – 30%) * Unit Cost Price
- After 40% Loss: The Unit Price of the coin will be (1 – 40%) * Unit Cost Price
- After 50% Loss: The Unit Price of the coin will be (1 – 50%) * Unit Cost Price
- After 100% Loss: The Unit Price of the coin will be (1 – 100%) * Unit Cost Price
NOTE:
The basic unit of Bitcoin (BTC) is Satoshi.
1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC
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Conclusion
You have learnt how to calculate crypto trading profit and loss using our simple, but powerful calculator app. You also learnt how to manually calculate profit and loss for any crypto trade. Crypto traders who do spot trading will find this calculator more useful. Feel free to use the tips in this article to secure your capital and profits, and also to avoid much losses by applying the stop-loss tips shared in this article.
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