Forex Profit Calculator
Choose your pair, direction and lot size, enter the open and close prices, and see the profit or loss in pips and in your account currency — before and after commission and swap. Free, no signup, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Enter the prices you were filled at. The calculator returns the move in pips, the pip value at your lot size, and the profit or loss in your account currency, before and after commission and swap.
Costs (optional)
How to Calculate Profit in Forex
Every forex profit calculator runs the same two steps. Multiply the price difference by the number of units traded, which gives the profit or loss in the pair's quote currency. Then, if the quote currency is not your account currency, convert it. A sell makes money when the price falls, so its sign is reversed.
Profit = (close price − open price) × lot size × units per lot, reversed for a sell, then converted to your account currency
Example 1: EUR/USD buy on a USD account. 0.50 lots, opened at 1.08500, closed at 1.09250 (illustrative prices, not current quotes).
The price rose 0.00750, which is 75 pips. At 50,000 units that is 0.00750 × 50,000 = $375.00. EUR/USD is quoted in US dollars, so no conversion is needed.
With commission of $7.00 per lot round turn, the cost is 0.50 × $7.00 = $3.50, leaving a net profit of $371.50.
Example 2: USD/JPY sell on a USD account. 1.00 lot, opened at 150.000, closed at 151.200 (illustrative prices).
The price rose 1.200 against a sell, a loss of 120 pips. At 100,000 units that is 1.200 × 100,000 = ¥120,000.
USD/JPY is quoted in yen, so the loss is converted at the close price: ¥120,000 ÷ 151.200 = a loss of $793.65.
Turning an EA's Pip Claims Into Money
Expert Advisor sales pages often quote results in pips, because a pip figure sounds the same whatever size the account traded. It is not a result on its own. 500 pips a month on EUR/USD at 0.01 lots is $50 on a USD account — 500 × $0.10 — and the same 500 pips at 1.00 lot is $5,000. Neither figure says anything about how deep the drawdown went to get there.
Put a claimed pip figure through the calculator at the lot size the vendor actually traded, then ask what the account balance was. A return only means something as a percentage of the capital that produced it, over a verified period. How we test Expert Advisors sets out what we check before we trust a performance figure.
What Changes the Real Profit on a Trade
Commission
On raw-spread accounts, commission is charged per lot and usually quoted per side. The calculator takes it round turn — both sides together — per standard lot. On 10 September 2026 we recorded round-turn commission of $4.50 at Axi, $6.00 at Tickmill and $7.00 at Eightcap and IC Markets on each broker's lowest-spread commission account; the MT5 brokers comparison has each broker's account-by-account pricing.
The spread is already in your prices
A buy opens at the ask and closes at the bid; a sell opens at the bid and closes at the ask. If you enter the prices you were actually filled at, the spread is already counted. Subtract it again and you will understate the profit.
Swap on positions held overnight
A position still open at the broker's daily rollover is charged or paid swap, and one night a week usually carries three days' worth to cover the weekend. For an EA that holds trades for days, swap can be the difference between a small win and a small loss. Enter the total from your trade history.
The conversion rate
Where your account currency is part of the pair, the calculator converts at your close price, as MetaTrader does. Otherwise it pre-fills the European Central Bank's reference rate for the latest published day. That is close enough for planning, but your broker converts at its own rate when the trade closes, so overwrite it with your broker's price for an exact figure.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Before You Trust an EA's Profit Figures
A correct profit figure is worth very little if the EA producing it was never worth running. We publish two free documents that cover the checks we run before we will cover a product at all: the EA Red Flag Checklist, and a Broker and VPS Quick Reference covering the conditions an EA actually needs to perform as advertised.
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Profit Is the Easy Number
A profit calculator tells you what a trade made. It says nothing about whether the Expert Advisor that placed it will keep making them, or what it risked along the way. As at September 2026, none of the eight Expert Advisors we have reviewed holds our Recommended verdict, and each review shows the arithmetic, the account each figure came from and the date it was read.
If you are checking a vendor's results, start with the account behind them. How we test Expert Advisors sets out what we look for before we trust a figure.
This tool performs arithmetic on figures you supply and runs entirely in your browser. Exchange rates are European Central Bank reference rates, published once each working day, and are not live prices. It is not financial advice and it is not a recommendation to trade. Your broker's profit and loss can differ from this figure with its exact fills, contract sizes, conversion rate, commission, swap and rounding. Trading forex and CFDs carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors.
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