Trade planner
Turn a trade idea into a complete plan — stop, quantity and target — before you place the order, so the size is decided by arithmetic rather than by how confident you feel.
Runs entirely in your browserRuns entirely on your device — nothing you type is sent anywhere. Educational only, and not investment advice.
How to use this calculator
Each step names a control you will find on screen above.
- Trading capital
The money you actually trade with, not your total net worth. If ₹8 lakh sits in a PPF you will never touch, it is not trading capital.
- Stock and Entry price
Pick the stock and type the price you expect to get in at. The stock choice sets a realistic volatility figure — a mid-cap moves far more in a day than a large-cap bank does.
- Risk per trade
The percentage of capital you accept losing if this trade fails. Start at 1%. Above 2% a normal losing streak becomes an account-threatening one.
- Stop distance
How far below entry the stop sits, expressed in multiples of the stock’s own volatility. Wider is not worse — it just means fewer shares.
- Target reward ratio
How much you aim to make relative to what you are risking. The panel then tells you the win rate that ratio needs to break even, which is the number worth arguing with.
Worked example: A ₹5 lakh account taking one position
You want to buy a large-cap at ₹1,200. You have ₹5 lakh of trading capital and you are willing to lose 1% of it on this idea.
What to enter
- Trading capital
- ₹5,00,000
- Entry price
- ₹1,200
- Risk per trade
- 1%
- Stop distance
- ₹60 below entry (stop at ₹1,140)
- Target reward ratio
- 2 : 1
What it shows you
- Rupees at risk
- ₹5,000
- Risk per share
- ₹60
- Quantity to buy
- 83 shares
- Position value
- ₹99,600
- Target price
- ₹1,320
- Break-even win rate
- 33.3%
1% of ₹5,00,000
₹1,200 − ₹1,140
₹5,000 ÷ ₹60, rounded down
just under 20% of capital
₹120 up = 2× the ₹60 risked
at 2:1, you can be wrong twice for every win
Where this is taught
A calculator gives you a number. These explain what the number means and when it misleads you.
- Technical Analysis11 minScanning, watchlists and a weekly routineTechnique without a routine produces sporadic results. The workflow that turns 2,000 listed companies into five prepared trades a week.
- Risk & Psychology11 minPosition sizing: the only thing you fully controlYou cannot control whether you are right. You can control exactly how much it costs to be wrong.
- Fundamental Analysis10 minHow many companies can you actually follow?Every holding carries a maintenance cost measured in hours a year. Count the hours you genuinely have, and the number of holdings decides itself.
- Fundamental Analysis12 minScreening, and writing a thesis you can be held toHow to narrow 5,000 companies to a shortlist worth reading about, and how to write down why you are buying — before you buy.
- Market Basics9 minThe arithmetic of a loss: why a 50% fall needs a 100% gainA 50% fall does not need a 50% rise to recover — it needs 100%. The asymmetry between a loss and its recovery is the arithmetic behind every rule about protecting capital.