Calculate the ideal number of contracts to trade based on your account size, risk tolerance, and stop loss in points.
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From your broker's Market Watch → Specification tab (often called "tick value" ÷ "tick size", or shown directly as contract size / point value).
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The smallest price increment your broker allows for this symbol — often much smaller than a full "point" on the underlying exchange.
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Please fill in all fields with valid positive values.
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Amount at Risk—
Contracts to Trade—
Risk per Contract—
Stop Loss (points used)—
Stop Loss (ticks)—
Dollar Value per Point—
CME contract specs (S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow, Russell 2000 and their Micro versions) sourced from CME Group. Note: the standard-size ("big") S&P 500 futures contract was delisted by CME on Sept 17, 2021 and folded into the E-mini S&P 500 (ES) — it's been removed from this tool since it's no longer tradable.
The rest of the list (US 30 / US 500 / US Tech 100 / Small Cap 2000 / S&P 500 VIX, all European, Latin American and Asia-Pacific indices, and "Custom") don't have one standardized, universally-correct multiplier — point value and tick size are set by your broker and can vary between platforms — for these, enter the numbers from your platform's Symbol/Contract Specification screen (this is the same info MT5's Market Watch shows). If you trade the exchange-listed futures version of one of these markets directly (e.g. Eurex FDAX, HKEX HSI, NSE Nifty), use the multiplier from that exchange's contract spec instead.