Trading Glossary & Tool Guides
Every calculator, backtest and practice tool explained: what it measures, how to use it, and the mistakes it prevents.
Disclaimer: This guide is provided for education only and does not constitute investment advice.
Calculator guides
Position Size Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to position sizing: the formula, every input explained, how to size trades across forex, stocks, and crypto, and a worked example from risk budget to shares.
Compound Interest Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to compounding for traders: the formula, every input explained, why time beats rate, and a worked example of an account growing through reinvested returns.
Sharpe Ratio Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the Sharpe ratio: the formula, every input explained, how to interpret a good value, and a worked example of measuring return per unit of risk.
Stop Loss & Take Profit Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to stop loss and take profit: where to place them, every input explained, how the risk distance defines the exits, and a worked example.
Risk to Reward Ratio Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the risk-to-reward ratio: the formula, the breakeven win rate, how to judge a trade before entry, and a worked example.
Profit / Loss Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to trading profit and loss: gross versus net, the formula for long and short, every input explained, and a worked example.
Win Rate Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to trading win rate: why it means nothing on its own, how expectancy ties it to payoff, every input explained, and a worked example.
Profit Factor Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to profit factor: what it measures, what value counts as good, how sample size matters, every input explained, and a worked example.
Trade Return Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to per-trade return: why percentage beats dollar P&L for comparison, how to calculate it, every input explained, and a worked example.
Equity Curve Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the equity curve: what it reveals, why the path matters more than the total, every input explained, and a worked example.
Drawdown Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to drawdown: what it measures, why it matters more than return, how to calculate it and the recovery required, plus a worked example.
Risk of Ruin Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to risk of ruin: what it estimates, why positive expectancy is not enough, how position size controls it, plus a worked example.
CAGR Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to CAGR: what it measures, why it beats the simple average, the formula, and a worked example.
DCA Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to dollar-cost averaging: how it works, why the value is behavioral, every input explained, and a worked example.
VWAP Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to VWAP: what it measures, why institutions benchmark against it, the formula, every input, and a worked example.
Fibonacci Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to Fibonacci retracements and extensions: how to draw the levels, every input, why they work as zones, and a worked example.
Pivot Point Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to pivot points: the formula for the central pivot and its support and resistance levels, every input, and a worked example.
Monte Carlo Simulation — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to Monte Carlo simulation: how reshuffling your trades reveals the luck in a backtest, every input, and a worked example.
Value at Risk (VaR) Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to Value at Risk: the formula, the z-score, every input, its main limitation, and a worked example.
Volatility Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to volatility: what it measures, why the 252 convention matters, historical vs implied, every input, and a worked example.
Market Hours Converter — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to market hours: the four sessions, why overlaps concentrate liquidity, and how to convert global hours into your local time.
Break-Even Price Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the break-even price: the cost hurdle every trade must clear, the formula, every input, and a worked example.
Drawdown Recovery Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to recovery math: why a loss needs a larger gain to recover, the formula, and a worked example.
Kelly Criterion Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the Kelly criterion: the formula, why full Kelly is too aggressive, the negative result, and a worked example.
Hong Kong Trading Fees Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to Hong Kong trading fees: the layered structure, why both legs pay, every input, and a worked example.
Liquidation Price Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the liquidation price: how leverage and margin mode move it, every input, and a worked example.
Funding Rate Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the funding rate: why it exists, how it works, every input, and a worked example.
Margin Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to trading margin: what it is, how leverage and margin are inverse, every input, and a worked example.
Forex Swap Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to forex swap: the interest differential, why Wednesday is triple, every input, and a worked example.
Pip Value Calculator — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to pip value: what a pip is, why it changes between pairs, the formula, every input, and a worked example.
Market Calendar — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the market calendar: earnings, dividends, and splits, why events are a volatility map, and how to use the calendar.
Backtesting & practice guides
Stock Backtesting — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to stock backtesting: every trigger type, indicator, and parameter explained, plus a worked example from idea to evaluated result.
Crypto Backtesting — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to crypto backtesting: every trigger type, indicator, and parameter explained, plus why realistic costs matter more in a 24/7 volatile market.
Stock Training Ground — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the stock training ground: how train-then-validate catches overfitting, every rule type and parameter explained, plus a worked validation example.
Crypto Training Ground — User Guide & Reference
The complete guide to the crypto training ground: train-then-validate on volatile crypto data, every rule and parameter explained, plus a worked validation example.