Futures Profit Calculator
Work out the profit or loss on any futures trade. Pick a contract, go long or short, and enter your entry and exit prices - or the move in ticks or points. You get the ticks, points, gross and net P&L after commissions, and the result as a share of your prop firm drawdown. Tick values come from our CME contract specs.
ES: tick 0.25 index points = $12.50; one index point = $50. ES specs
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FAQs - Futures Profit and Loss
Ticks, points, commissions and drawdown - how futures P&L is worked out, with exact CME tick values.
Count the ticks between entry and exit, multiply by the tick value and by the number of contracts, then subtract commissions. Long 2 ES from 6,000 to 6,010 is 10 points, or 40 ticks of 0.25. At $12.50 a tick that is 40 × $12.50 × 2 = $1,000 gross; with a $4 round-turn commission per contract the net is $992.
NQ ticks are 0.25 points worth $5.00, so one point is $20 and 50 points is 200 ticks, or $1,000 per contract. MNQ uses the same 0.25 tick at $0.50, so the same 50 points is $100 per contract. Ten MNQ make the same P&L as one NQ.
The same way with the sign reversed: a short makes money when price falls. Short 1 CL at $70.50 and cover at $70.00 and you made 50 ticks of $0.01, worth $10.00 each, or $500. If CL rises to $71.00 instead, the same 50 ticks are a $500 loss. On MCL each tick is $1.00, so those figures are $50.
The total charged to open and close one contract - the buy and the sell together, usually with exchange and clearing fees included. Enter it per contract and the calculator multiplies it by your size. It also shows the break-even move: a $4 round turn on MNQ ($0.50 a tick) needs 8 ticks, or 2 points, just to cover costs.
Both describe the same move; the tick is the smallest one the exchange allows. ES, NQ and their micros have 4 ticks to a point, RTY and GC have 10, YM has 1, CL has 100 ticks to a dollar, and ZB has 32 ticks to a point (1/32 each). Switch the input to ticks or points to enter a move the way your platform shows it.
On a funded or evaluation account the drawdown limit, not the nominal account size, is the money you can actually lose. On a 50K account with a $2,000 drawdown, a $500 loss uses 25% of it - four of those and the account is gone. Enter your drawdown and the calculator shows each result as a share of it.
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