CFDs are complex financial instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. CFDs are complex financial instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

CFD trading calculator

Discover how a CFD trade works – including the margin requirement for your trade and the potential profit or loss – with our CFD trading calculator.

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Our CFD trading calculator*

Play around with the options in our example below to see how margin requirements and profit or loss are calculated on CFD trades.

Trade	Buy EUR/USD contract - no stop loss**
Trade size?The amount you stand to gain or lose per point the market moves up or down. For example, at $5 a point, an upwards movement of 10 points would result in a $50 profit.	$5.00 per point move
Margin requirement?The amount of money you need to put forward in order to place a trade	$1210.00 How CFD margin worksNumber of contracts x contract size x price x margin percentage (currently 2%)
EUR/USD moves up 200 ptsto 1.2300	$995.00 profit
EUR/USD moves down 200 ptsto 1.1900	$1005.00 loss

* The profit, loss and margin requirement figures in this example are for illustrative purposes only, and the calculation assumes a spread of 1 point – which could vary. If you keep your positions on spot markets open overnight, you will pay overnight funding charges.

How to use our CFD trading calculator

Choose your points of movement

Set up our calculator using different points of movement, from 50 points all the way up to 500, which are typical amounts of price movement in various CFD trade timeframes.

Select your order size

Put in a range of order sizes including $1, $2, $5, $10 and $25 per point of movement in the underlying market.

Keep in mind that FX CFDs are always traded in the quote currency – so you might be trading in a different currency than USD (which we used in our example above).

See how your costs are calculated

Look at the margin requirement and final profit or loss for the trade using the figures provided by the example, and tweak the input data to get a different calculation.

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Demo accounts are only available for CFD trading.

Fast execution on a huge range of markets

Enjoy flexible access to 17,000 global markets, with reliable execution

Deal seamlessly, wherever you are

Trade on the move with our natively designed, award-winning trading app*

Feel secure with a trusted provider

With more than 45 years of experience, we’re proud to offer a truly market-leading service

*Best Finance App, Best Multi-Platform Provider and Best Platform for the Active Trader as awarded at the ADVFN International Financial Awards 2024.

How to get started with CFD trading

To get started with CFD trading, check out the educational resources we have at IG Academy – which can help you with your market analysis and risk management – or learn more about how CFD trading works.

Learn how to trade CFDs
Choose a market to trade
Create a CFD trading account
Take steps to manage your risk
Open, monitor and close your CFD trade

Remember that our CFD calculator is a useful tool for determining the margin requirement and potential profit or loss of your CFD trade before you open a position.

Who are we?

If you want to trade financial markets, you’ve come to the right place. We invented financial spread betting in 1974, and today we offer CFDs to retail traders who are looking to seize their next opportunity. We’ve got a range of markets to choose from, including indices, forex, commodities, shares and more.

FAQs

How is CFD margin calculated?

CFD margin is calculated as a percentage of the total position size, and it’s the deposit that you need to put down to open a leveraged CFD trading position. Our CFD margin requirements vary between the markets you’re looking to trade.

See our margin rates for more info

How is CFD profit and loss calculated?

CFD profit and loss is calculated as the difference in price from when you opened your position to when you closed it, multiplied by your total position size. You should remember that when you’re trading with leverage, your final profit or loss will be calculated using the full position size – not just the margin required to open it – which can result in both greater profits, and greater losses.

Learn more about calculating your profit or loss on a CFD trade

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CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Professional Clients can lose more than they deposit.

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CFD trading calculator

Our CFD trading calculator*

Choose your points of movement in the EUR/USD pair – assuming an opening price of 1.2100:

Select your order size in amount of quote currency (USD in this example) per point of movement:

$1210.00

$995.00 profit

$1005.00 loss