Crypto profit calculator
How the crypto profit calculator works
A simple price comparison overstates your gain because it forgets fees. This crypto profit calculator takes the fee off twice: once when you buy, reducing the coins you receive, and again when you sell, reducing the cash you get back.
Sale proceeds = coins bought × sell price × (1 − fee)
Profit or loss = sale proceeds − amount invested
Worked example
These numbers are illustrative only. You invest $2,000 in bitcoin at $50,000, paying a 0.1% fee. After the fee, $1,998 buys 0.03996 BTC. Later you sell at $56,000, again paying 0.1%. The sale is worth 0.03996 × $56,000 = $2,237.76, less the fee, leaving about $2,235.52.
Your profit is about $235.52, or 11.78% on the $2,000 invested. Without fees, a rise from $50,000 to $56,000 would be a 12% gain of $240. The fees cut that by about $4.48: $2.00 paid on the purchase, about $2.24 paid on the sale, and roughly $0.24 of growth the first fee would otherwise have earned.
Reading the result
- Check the fee you really pay. Instant-buy features, card purchases and some apps charge far more than a platform's headline trading fee, often through a wider spread.
- Include withdrawal costs if you move coins to a wallet; network fees are not part of this calculation.
- Losses are asymmetric. A 50% fall needs a 100% rise to get back to where you started.
- Tax may apply to gains in your country. Keep records of every buy, sell and fee.
Use the calculator to test scenarios, not to predict prices: try a fall as well as a rise before you buy. For background, read what Bitcoin is and how trading fees add up.