Separate gross price gain from exchange costs
Trade profit is the price difference times quantity, less fees charged when buying and selling. Buying 0.35 units at 26,500 and selling at 31,200 creates a gross gain of 1,645. Buy-side fee is 37.10 and sell-side fee is 43.68 at 0.4% each, leaving 1,564.22.
This is a cash spot-trade model
The return percentage uses the purchase value before fees in this simple spot-trade model. It assumes the full quantity is sold, both fees are percentage charges, and there is no borrowing. Leverage, funding, liquidation rules, and partial fills are different calculations rather than small adjustments.
A 0.35-unit round trip
The worked trade costs 9,275 before fees. After the 37.10 buy fee, the entry outlay is 9,312.10. Sale proceeds after the 43.68 fee are 10,876.32. Subtracting produces 1,564.22, a 16.86% return on the 9,275 purchase value used by this calculator; a fee-inclusive return would use a different denominator.
Quoted price is not necessarily executable
Price alone is not a realized result until the order fills. Bid-ask spread, order-book depth, maker versus taker pricing, withdrawal fees, and a token's quoted currency can change proceeds. A screen price from a thin market may not be executable for the quantity used in the calculation.
Profit arithmetic does not settle tax
Tax treatment is outside the trade arithmetic. Cost basis may include prior lots, transfers, rewards, and local recordkeeping rules; a profitable sale in one currency can have a different taxable gain after conversion. Keep trade confirmations, fees, timestamps, and quantities rather than relying on a reconstructed price chart.
A target is not a market forecast
This page is for a completed or proposed spot trade, not a valuation forecast. It cannot say whether a token will rise, whether an exchange remains solvent, or whether a strategy suits your circumstances. Test downside prices as well as the target sale price before committing funds.
Keep execution evidence, not a chart memory
Export the order confirmations before relying on a trade result. Filled quantity, execution price, fee currency, order type, and timestamp can differ from a planned order, and each difference changes realized proceeds as well as any later accounting record.
The denominator determines what 'return' means. The default calculation divides 1,564.22 by the 9,275 purchase value and reports 16.86%. If the fee-inclusive cash outlay of 9,312.10 were used instead, the same profit would be 16.80%. Neither label is universally right, but they cannot be compared without stating whether entry fees belong in invested capital. A performance record should use one convention consistently across trades.
Break-even sale price can be checked before an order is placed. With 0.35 units bought at 26,500 and a 0.4% fee on each side, entry cash is 9,312.10. To recover that after the sale fee, gross sale proceeds must be 9,349.50; divided by 0.35, the break-even sell price is about 26,712.86. The gap above the buy price is not a forecast; it is the round-trip cost hurdle created by the stated fees.
Partial fills and fee currency can invalidate a planned result. An order intended for 0.35 units may fill 0.20 at one price and 0.15 at another, producing a weighted entry price. A platform may charge fees in the asset received, in the asset sold, or in a separate token; a percentage entered as cash on both sides then becomes an approximation. Use execution confirmations, not a chart screenshot, to rebuild realized proceeds.
A price gain is separate from custody and transfer risk. Withdrawal fees, chain fees, address errors, platform outages, and loss of access can affect what is recoverable even though they do not alter the spot formula. The SEC's investor education materials warn that crypto-asset transactions can involve volatility, illiquidity, platform failure, and limited protections. Those risks are reasons to limit what is exposed, not variables this calculator can convert into a reliable percentage.
Tax reporting and accounting require dates, lots, jurisdiction, and records that this page does not ask for. A sale can be profitable in quote currency while producing a different reportable result after fees, prior acquisitions, or conversion to a reporting currency. Keep order IDs, timestamps, quantities, fees, and transfer records with the calculation. The result is a transparent trade scenario, not tax, legal, custody, or investment advice.
Treat planned and realized trades as different records. A plan can list an intended buy, target sell, quantity, fee schedule, and break-even price; a realized trade must use weighted fill prices, actual quantity, actual fees, and any withdrawal or conversion charges that belong to the outcome. Preserve both records so a later review can distinguish a strategy assumption from an execution difference. Do not average percentages from several trades without also stating the capital and timing behind each one. A clean per-trade profit formula remains valuable precisely because it does not pretend to measure portfolio performance, tax liability, or future price probability.
The two fees create a measurable hurdle even before a target price is chosen. The default 0.35-unit purchase costs 9,312.10 after its 37.10 entry fee. Recovering that cash after a 0.4% exit fee needs gross proceeds of about 9,349.50, or a sell price near 26,712.86 per unit. That break-even price is a cost threshold, not evidence that a market will trade there or that the full order can fill there. A realized record must replace this scenario with actual fills and the fee currency used by the venue.
External reference used for the scope statement: SEC investor alert on crypto-asset risks.
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