Break Even Calculator
Find the price your investment must reach to break even. Enter your average buy price, quantity, and fees to see your break-even sell price for any asset.
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Sell at or above this price per unit to recover your total cost.
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This calculator works for any asset type including stocks, cryptocurrencies, forex, and commodities. It does not account for taxes or slippage.
How to Use the Break Even Calculator
- Average buy price: Enter the price per unit you paid on average for your investment.
- Quantity: Enter the number of units you hold.
- Buy / sell fees: Optionally add any fees paid when buying or that you expect when selling for accurate break-even calculation.
- Results: You get your break-even sell price per unit and how much the price must rise from your average buy price to break even.
What Is Break-Even Price?
Break-even price is the price at which selling your entire position would exactly recover your total cost—including what you paid for the asset and any transaction fees. At this price, you neither make a profit nor incur a loss. Selling above this price means profit; selling below it means a loss.
Knowing your break-even price is essential for setting realistic profit targets and managing risk on any trade, whether you are trading stocks, cryptocurrencies, forex, or other financial instruments.
Why Include Fees in Your Calculation?
Transaction fees, commissions, and spreads reduce your effective proceeds when selling and add to your total cost when buying. If you ignore these costs, you might believe you are at break-even when you are actually still slightly underwater. Including both buy and sell fees gives you the true price your asset must reach for you to break even after all costs.
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