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Six tools that cover the arithmetic of a futures trade end to end: what a tick is worth, how much collateral a position ties up, how many contracts your risk budget allows, whether the reward justifies the risk, what the trade actually returned after commission, and what the system's drawdown looks like over time.

Futures position size calculatorWork out how many contracts your risk budget actually allows, how much margin that position ties up, and where 1R, 2R and 3R sit. Built for futures — multiplier, tick size and margin per contract, not lots and pips.Futures position size Futures margin calculatorMargin in futures is set by the exchange, not by a broker's leverage ratio — and it changes when volatility changes. Enter the contract spec and see the collateral your position ties up, the share of equity it consumes, and the price move that puts you on a margin call.Futures margin Tick value calculatorEvery futures contract has its own tick size and its own multiplier, and therefore its own tick value — the cash one minimum price move is worth. Two contracts that look identical on a chart can differ by a factor of twenty in money. Get the number right before you size anything.Tick value Risk reward calculatorA risk-reward ratio on its own says nothing. What matters is whether your expected win rate clears the break-even rate that ratio implies. Enter the trade and an honest strike rate, and see the expectancy in money.Risk reward Max drawdown calculatorMaximum drawdown is the number that decides whether a profitable system is tradeable. Paste your trade-by-trade results and get the drawdown in money and in percent, the return needed to recover it, and the losing streak that produced it.Max drawdown Futures profit and loss calculatorGross profit is easy; the number that reaches your account is not. Enter entry, exit, contract size and commission to get the exact result, the move in points and ticks, and what the trade cost you in fees.Futures P and L

How to use them together

The tools are designed to be used in sequence on a single trade. Start with the tick value calculator to establish what a tick is worth on the contract you are considering — that number is the conversion factor between the chart and your account, and it is specific to each product. Move to the margin calculator to check whether the position is fundable and how much adverse movement it can absorb before a margin call. Then use the position size calculator to derive the contract count that keeps the loss at your risk budget, and the risk reward calculator to test whether the target on offer clears the break-even win rate.

The profit and loss calculator is for after the fact: entering your actual fills and your commission to see what the trade really returned, as opposed to what the chart suggested. The drawdown calculator works at the level above individual trades, taking a sequence of results and reporting the peak-to-trough fall, the recovery return required and the longest losing streak.

A note on the example values

Each calculator ships with plausible example inputs so the page is useful before you type anything. They are illustrative specifications, not current exchange values — multipliers, tick sizes and margin requirements are set per product by each exchange and are revised from time to time. Always take the specification for the contract you actually trade from your own exchange's contract specification page.