Trading Tools
The five calculators I actually use — for sizing a position, checking risk, planning a DCA and scoring the market each week. Investing long-term? Start with the DCA calculator.
Know your exact position size before every trade. Enter your account size, risk percentage, and stop-loss — and get the precise units to buy or sell.
Account: £5,000. Risk per trade: 1% = £50. You want to buy BTC at $60,000 with a stop at $57,000 — 5% below.
Position size = risk ÷ stop distance = £50 ÷ 5% = £1,000 of BTC. If the stop hits, you lose £50 — 1% of the account — not 5% of it.
Leverage changes how much margin you put up, not how much you lose at the stop. Size from the stop first, every time.
Check your R:R before entering. See your exact risk, potential profit, break-even win rate, and leveraged P&L — all in one place.
Entry $60,000, stop $57,000 (risk $3,000), target $69,000 (reward $9,000). That’s 1:3.
At 1:3 you only need to be right 25% of the time to break even. Win 4 trades out of 10 risking £50 each: 4 × £150 − 6 × £50 = +£300, despite losing more often than you win.
Plan your accumulation strategy. See your average entry price, total holdings, and projected return at any target price across your DCA schedule.
£100 at £50 a coin buys 2 coins. £100 at £25 buys 4. You’ve spent £200 on 6 coins: an average cost of £33.33, below the £37.50 average price.
That’s why steady buying through a fall lowers your break-even. It only pays if the asset recovers above your average — so what you DCA into matters most.
Know your exact liquidation price before entering a leveraged trade. Most blown accounts come from not knowing this number.
Long BTC at $60,000 with 10× leverage: you’re liquidated roughly 9.5% lower, around $54,300. At 20× it’s about 4.5% lower, near $57,300.
Bitcoin moves 4–5% in a day regularly. If your liquidation price sits inside a normal day’s range, the position is too big or the leverage too high. Leveraged derivatives aren’t available to retail investors in the UK.
My weekly routine, taught in full in Series 2 of the Academy. Score all 12 signals and get your cycle phase assessment and positioning guidance.
Rate each of the 12 signals to get your cycle phase assessment and positioning guidance.
Pick one day — I use Sunday — and score every signal before the week opens. Then write a one-sentence bias, for example: “Accumulation. Structure improving, sentiment neutral. Bias: keep the DCA running, no leverage.”
Compare it with last week’s. One signal flipping rarely changes the phase; several moving together usually does. Writing it down stops you rewriting your view every time the price moves.