Crypto profit calculator
This crypto profit calculator shows what a trade actually made or lost once trading fees are taken on the way in and on the way out. It works for bitcoin or any coin priced in dollars.
The formula
Proceeds = coins × sell price × (1 − fee)
Profit or loss = proceeds − amount invested
Worked example
Illustrative figures: you invest $1,000 in bitcoin at $60,000 and sell at $66,000, paying 0.1% per trade.
- Coins bought: 1,000 × 0.999 ÷ 60,000 = 0.01665 BTC.
- Proceeds: 0.01665 × 66,000 × 0.999 = about $1,097.80.
- Profit: $1,097.80 − $1,000 = about $97.80, or 9.78%, compared with the 10% price rise.
If the price had fallen to $54,000 instead, the same trade would return about $898.20, a loss of roughly $101.80. And with fees of 0.1% each way, the price needs to reach about $60,120 just to break even.
The break-even price
With the same fee on both sides, the sell price that exactly returns your money is: break-even price = buy price ÷ (1 − fee)². At a $60,000 buy and 0.1% fees, that is 60,000 ÷ 0.999² ≈ $60,120.18. Higher fees push it further away: that is worth knowing before choosing an app with a 1% or 2% charge.
How to read the result
The result is before tax and excludes costs the calculator cannot see: the spread between buy and sell prices, card or deposit fees, and network fees if you withdraw coins. On some apps the spread is the largest cost of all, so compare the price you are shown with a live order book where you can. Our page on trading fees covers those extra lines.
Use the calculator before a trade to see how far the price must move to cover costs, and after it to record what really happened. For how coins and exchanges work, read how crypto works and what is Bitcoin.