Break-Even Calculator

The exit price that leaves you exactly level once fees are paid — always a little above where you bought. Add how far the position is down and it also shows the gain you now need to climb back. Runs in your browser.

Break-even is above your entry, always

You pay a fee going in and another coming out, so selling at exactly what you paid loses money. The exit that gets you level is entry × (1 + fee) ÷ (1 − fee) — note the division, because the sell-side fee is charged on the exit value rather than the entry. At 0.1% per side that is about 0.2% above your entry; at 0.5% it is more than 1%.

The asymmetry that catches people out

A loss and the recovery from it are not the same size. Down 20% needs +25% to get back. Down 50% needs +100%. Down 80% needs +400%. The optional field shows this because it is the single most useful number for deciding whether to hold a losing position: not "how far has it fallen" but "what does it now have to do".

Questions people ask

Not directly. Leverage multiplies the move, and funding on a perpetual adds a cost that grows the longer you hold, so break-even drifts upward every funding interval. This calculator is for spot. Treat its answer as the floor for a leveraged position, never the target.

Not included, and on thin pairs it can cost more than the fee. If you regularly cross a wide spread, add roughly half of it to your fee percentage to get a realistic figure.

Most exchanges quote break-even on the entry fee only, ignoring the fee you have not paid yet. That understates it. The number here assumes you will actually close the position, which you will.

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