Trading Fee Calculator

Trading fees are easy to ignore because each one is tiny. A fraction of a percent on entry and another on exit seems like nothing next to a price move of several percent. But fees are paid whether or not the trade works, and in total they can be the difference between a profitable month and a break-even one.

The calculator shows the cost three ways. The fee on one round trip, in money. The price move needed for the trade just to cover fees, which is the round-trip fee as a percentage and sets the minimum your trade must move before you make anything. And the total over a month at the number of trades you place, which turns a small rate into a real figure.

Fees matter most to strategies that trade often and aim for small gains. If your average winning trade makes a gain that is only a few times the round-trip fee, a large share of every win goes to the exchange. Reducing the number of low-quality trades, or moving to orders that pay a lower fee, improves the result without changing your entries.

To see what your actual fees have been, upload an export to the trading fee analyzer, which adds up the fees in your file and compares them with your gross profit.