Editorial Policy

calculatorsforex.com is built and maintained by one person — Frano Grgić, also the author of the forex education site GetKnowTrading.com. This page explains, plainly, how a calculator on this site gets built, checked, and corrected.

How a calculator gets built

Every calculator starts from a real instrument’s contract specification: its pip/point size, contract size, and point value (the dollar value of one point of price movement for a 1.0 lot position). These numbers come from the same broker/exchange contract specifications a trader would check before placing a real trade — not guessed, and not copied wholesale from another calculator site.

Automatically generated pages

Searching for a symbol that doesn’t have a page yet creates one automatically from live market data, so a visitor’s search is never a dead end. A page built this way is marked “Newly added — pending review” directly on the page itself, and is excluded from search suggestions and from indexing until a person — currently, the site’s author — manually checks its contract specification against a real source. This is an honest trade-off: instant coverage for visitors, paired with a visible flag until the numbers are actually confirmed.

The position-sizing formula

The core calculation follows the standard risk-percentage model used across trading education:

Lots = (Account balance × Risk %) ÷ (Stop distance × Point value)

This is the same formula structure taught across BabyPips, ForexFactory, and most retail trading education — nothing proprietary or unusual. What varies per instrument is only the contract data (pip size, contract size, point value) feeding into it, which is why getting that data right matters more than the formula itself.

Broker-specific variance

Contract size and point value for the same instrument can genuinely differ between brokers, especially for indices and CFDs. Every calculator page says this explicitly and shows the exact numbers being used, rather than presenting one universal answer as if it applies everywhere. Always confirm against your own broker’s contract specification before sizing a real trade.

What this site doesn’t do

This is a calculation tool, not financial or investment advice, and calculatorsforex.com is not a broker, signal provider, or advisory service. See the Risk Disclaimer for the full statement.

Corrections

If a number on this site looks wrong, or a broker’s real contract specification differs from what’s shown, get in touch — corrections get made directly, not queued behind anything else.

Where this policy is still evolving

Verification today is manual — checked directly by the site’s author against publicly available broker/exchange contract specifications. A more formal, documented verification process (e.g. a fixed checklist applied before every page is marked reviewed) is planned; this page will be updated once that process is finalized rather than describing something that isn’t actually in place yet.