Trading fee and slippage calculator
How far a price has to rise before a quick buy-and-sell gets your money back, once the platform fee, slippage and network fees are taken out both ways.
Charged when you buy and again when you sell. Your platform lists it.
How much worse than the quoted price you get filled. Your assumption.
Including any priority fee or tip. Paid twice.
Price rise needed to break even
6.4%
On a $600 trade, $36.00 is gone to fees and slippage before the price moves at all.
- Cost of one round trip
- $36.00
- Share of the trade
- 6.0%
- Result at +10%
- $20.50
- Cost of 20 a day
- $720
What you keep at each price move
The costs come off first, whichever way the price goes.
| Price move | You get back | Result |
|---|---|---|
| −50% | $281.50 | -$318.50 |
| −10% | $507.50 | -$92.50 |
| 0% | $564.00 | -$36.00 |
| +5% | $592.25 | -$7.75 |
| +10% | $620.50 | $20.50 |
| +25% | $705.25 | $105.25 |
| +50% | $846.50 | $246.50 |
| +100% | $1,129.00 | $529.00 |
This is arithmetic on the fee and slippage you entered — we do not know your platform’s charges or how any coin will fill. It assumes the same fee and slippage in both directions; in a thin market slippage can be worse on the way out, and grows with the size of the trade. It leaves out tax, tokens that charge their own transfer fee, failed transactions, and the case where a coin cannot be sold at all. An estimate, not advice.
Questions
- What is slippage?
- The gap between the price you were quoted and the price you were actually filled at. On a thinly traded coin your own order moves the price, so you buy a little higher and sell a little lower than the chart shows. It is a cost even though nobody sends you a bill for it.
- Why are the costs counted twice?
- Because a trade is not finished until you have sold. The platform fee, the slippage and the network fee are each paid once on the way in and once on the way out, so a 1% fee costs close to 2% of the trade before the price has moved.
- Why does a small trade need a bigger price move?
- The network fee is a fixed amount per transaction, not a percentage. On a large trade it is a rounding error; on a small one it can be the largest cost of all.