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Pip Value Calculator: Units and Account Currency
Calculate one pip in quote and account currency from base units, pip size and a conversion rate you supply. Includes a worked FX example and unit checks.
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reference · Forex & currencies
Pips, Points and Ticks: Convert Price Distances Without a Factor-of-Ten Error
Convert one price movement into pips, platform points and futures ticks, then keep price units separate from position-dependent money values.
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tool · Risk & sizing
Portfolio Exposure Calculator: Gross, Net and Equity Ratios
Compare gross and signed net notional with account equity using long and short totals. Understand currency conversion, offsets and concentration limitations.
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reference · Order execution
Price Limits and Circuit Breakers: What Can Happen to an Open Order
Distinguish price limits, trading halts and price banding with an example boundary, and check order and position behavior when normal execution is interrupted.
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Price Tick Grids: Why a Correctly Formatted Price Can Still Be Invalid
Validate prices against a tick increment, compare rounding directions for a limit order, and separate price formatting from stop-distance and execution rules.
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tool · Performance & testing
Profit Factor Calculator with Zero-Loss Handling
Calculate profit factor from realized winning and losing amounts, with transparent cost conventions, original ledger examples and zero-loss handling.
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R-Multiples: Normalize Outcomes by Initial Risk
Calculate realized R-multiples using a documented initial risk denominator, including costs, partial exits and examples where money and R averages differ.
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reference · Technical analysis
Renko Charts: Bricks and Synthetic Price Paths
Construct a simple Renko brick sequence, distinguish fixed and ATR sizing, and understand why synthetic chart prices can distort execution tests.
Read resourcetool · Risk & sizing
Risk and Reward Ratio Calculator with Costs
Model long or short reward-to-risk after costs, solve for a target or zero-net exit, or derive hypothetical prices from a declared tick grid.
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Risk of Ruin in Trading: Define the Barrier Before the Formula
Understand trading risk of ruin with fixed-stake and fractional-risk examples. Define the loss barrier, time horizon and model assumptions before calculating.
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RSI: Formula, Smoothing and Threshold Limits
Learn how RSI transforms gains and losses into a bounded oscillator, work through a calculation, and understand why high readings need not reverse.
Read resourcereference · Performance & testing
Serial Correlation: When Return Observations Depend on Time
Understand lagged return correlation with worked lag-one examples, consistent sampling and limitations for confidence intervals and annualized risk.
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Settlement Currency Conversion: Reconcile Trading P&L
Trace profit and loss from an instrument’s settlement currency into account currency with explicit rate direction, timestamps, fees and original examples.
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Sharpe vs Sortino Ratio: Calculate and Compare Them
Compare Sharpe and Sortino ratios with a worked return series. Check benchmarks, downside targets, annualization and what each statistic leaves out.
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Simple Margin Requirement Calculator
Estimate single-rate margin from base units, price, currency conversion and leverage. Understand why broker tiers, offsets and futures margin differ.
Open calculatorreference · Performance & testing
Skewness and Kurtosis: Inspect Return Shape and Extreme Values
Understand return asymmetry and fourth-moment tail sensitivity, with an explicit population-moment example and ordinary-versus-excess kurtosis conventions.
Read resourcetool · Order execution
Slippage Cost Calculator for Buy and Sell Transactions
Convert the signed difference between planned and actual fill prices into increments and account-currency cost for a linear quantity model.
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Spot and Forward FX: Compare Dates, Carry and Quote Direction
Understand why spot and forward currency prices differ, with a simplified interest-parity example and clear limits for futures and broker rolling products.
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Standard Deviation of Returns: Calculate and Interpret Volatility
Work through sample standard deviation of returns, distinguish percent units from decimal units, and understand annualization and tail-risk limitations.
Read resourcereference · Technical analysis
Stochastic Oscillator: %K, %D and Smoothing
Calculate raw stochastic %K and a smoothed %D example, distinguish fast and slow variants, and understand why range changes affect the reading.
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Stop-Limit Orders: Two Prices and the Risk of No Fill
Understand a stop-limit trigger and limit price with a gap example, and learn why controlling price can leave a position open.
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Supertrend: ATR Bands and State Changes
Learn Supertrend’s ATR bands and state changes, compare a separate trailing-stop ledger, and see why a stop trigger cannot guarantee the fill price.
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Supply and Demand Zones: Drawing Rules and Limits
Draw a supply or demand zone using a declared base-and-departure rule, track later visits and failures, and distinguish chart regions from live liquidity.
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Survivorship Bias: Audit the Accounts and Instruments Missing from a Sample
Understand survivorship bias through an original account-cohort example and an auditable inclusion ledger, with limits on missing-history conclusions.
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