Futures Position Size Calculator

Enter your account size, risk tolerance, and stop distance to get the max contract size that keeps a single stopped-out trade within your risk budget.

Dollar risk this trade$0
Max contracts (rounded down)0
Actual $ risk at that size$0
Formula: contracts = floor((account × risk%) ÷ (stop ticks × tick value)). This tells you the position size that keeps a single stopped-out trade at your target risk percentage — it does not account for slippage, commissions, or correlated positions open at the same time.
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