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Short Selling Profit Calculator

Work out the gross and net result of a short sale: borrow fee, margin interest, commissions, return on the margin deposited and the break-even cover price — with the unlimited-loss and margin-call risks spelled out.

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Open Short Selling Profit Calculator and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. Its place is under Investing & markets; Stop-Loss & Take-Profit Calculator and Crypto profit calculator answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Short Selling Profit Calculator do?

Work out the gross and net result of a short sale: borrow fee, margin interest, commissions, return on the margin deposited and the break-even cover price — with the unlimited-loss and margin-call risks spelled out.

When would I actually use this?

Comparing two investments that pay at different times, deciding whether a project clears its cost of capital, and sanity-checking a valuation someone else produced.

What is the most common mistake?

Trusting a valuation without asking what share of it comes from the terminal value. Past 70%, the answer is an assumption about the distant future dressed up as a calculation.

How is Short Selling Profit Calculator different from Stop-Loss & Take-Profit Calculator?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions. Stop-Loss & Take-Profit Calculator: place the stop and target of a long or short position from a risk:reward ratio, two percentages or two exact prices — with risk and reward per share, the realised R:R, the break-even win rate and optional position sizing. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Crypto profit calculator is the closest one after this: Compute the profit and ROI of a crypto trade from buy and sell prices.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Capital Gains Yield Calculator and Currency converter — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Discounting, IRR and payback are defined identically everywhere, so the arithmetic is not in dispute — the assumptions you feed it are. Change the discount rate by a point and re-read the answer.

Further reading

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ExplainerPrice Return, Total Return and Yield Are Three Different NumbersThe index quoted in the news is almost always a price index. At 5 percent price growth and a 2.5 percent reinvested yield, 30 years turn $10,000 into $43,219 on price and $90,656 on total return — the price measure misses 58.8 percent of the gain.ExplainerDividend Reinvestment: What Actually Drives the DifferenceReinvesting a 3 percent yield for 30 years turns 100 shares into 242.7 and multiplies the final position by exactly that factor: $32,434 becomes $78,726. Tax at 30 percent on each dividend costs $18,223 of it — nearly two and a half times the tax actually paid.ExplainerTax-Equivalent Yield: Comparing a Tax-Free Bond With a Taxable OneTaxable-equivalent yield = tax-free yield ÷ (1 − marginal rate). A 3.00 percent tax-free yield is worth 3.85 percent at a 22 percent marginal rate and 5.07 percent at 40.8 percent. The trap is that it is the marginal rate, surtaxes and social levies included — leaving them out costs 0.85 points of yield.GuideWhere to Set a Stop-Loss and a Take-ProfitThe stop goes where your idea is wrong, not where your comfort runs out — and then the position size adapts to it. Here is the volatility argument, the sizing arithmetic, and the win rate each reward multiple demands.ExplainerA One-Per-Cent Fee on Each Side Is Not a Two-Per-Cent ProblemBuy and sell fees of 0.5 % each need a 1.005 % gain to break even. Triple them to 1.5 % and you need 3.046 % — more than triple, because the two fees multiply rather than add.ExplainerAveraging Down Halves the Loss and Doubles the PositionTen shares at 100 plus twenty at 80 gives an average of 86.67. Buy forty at 50 instead and it falls to 60 — but the money at risk goes from 2,600 to 3,000.