Gold Trading Tools & Calculators

Ten free tools for XAU/USD traders. Convert the gold price between grams, ounces and kilos, work out what a trade actually earns after spread and commission, size a position from your risk in dollars, and see which market session is open right now. Every calculator runs in your browser — no account needed, nothing is sent to a server.

Gold Price Converter USD per ounce to price per gram, kilo and tael, plus the value of any weight. per gram / per ounce → Profit Calculator Gross and net profit on a gold trade after spread, commission and swap. profit with spread → Position Size Calculator Turn account balance, risk percentage and stop distance into a lot size. risk per trade → Risk/Reward Calculator Compare entry, stop and target to get the R multiple and the win rate you need. risk vs reward → Volatility by Session Compare typical gold ranges in Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York hours. session ranges → Session Clock Live UTC clock showing which gold market is open, closed or overlapping. market hours → Gold Pip Value Calculator Pip value, contract value and margin for XAU/USD at any lot size. pip value → Margin Calculator Required margin for any lot size, gold price and leverage — plus margin per lot. required margin → Liquidation Price Calculator The price where your margin runs out, and how far the market is from it. liquidation distance → Fibonacci Retracement 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8% and 78.6% levels from any swing high and low. retracement levels → Trailing Stop Calculator Follow price with a stop at a fixed distance and see the profit already locked in. locked profit →

Market sessions at a glance

Sydney Tokyo London New York UTC —

Session	Typical UTC hours	Gold character
Sydney	21:00 – 06:00	Thin liquidity and wider spreads. Small ranges; momentum trades struggle.
Tokyo	00:00 – 09:00	Asian physical demand. Contained ranges unless Chinese data or the yen moves.
London	07:00 – 16:00	Liquidity deepens fast and the day's high or low is often set early.
New York	12:00 – 21:00	US data, yields and Fed headlines. Sharp spikes and fast reversals.
London / NY overlap	12:00 – 16:00	Widest ranges and tightest spreads, with the most false breakouts.

How to use these tools together

Most losing gold trades are not the result of a bad direction call. They are the result of a position that was too large for the stop, a target that did not cover the spread, or an entry taken in an hour when the market simply does not move. The calculators on this page are designed to remove those three mistakes before you click buy or sell.

Start with the position size calculator. Enter your balance, the percentage you are willing to lose on one trade, and the distance in dollars between entry and stop. The output is the lot size that turns that stop into a known loss instead of a surprise.
Check the profit calculator next. Gold spreads are quoted in cents and widen around news, so a 60-second target of $1.50 can be worth far less than it looks once spread and commission are deducted. The net figure is the only one that matters.
Use the session clock and volatility page to pick your hours. A strategy that works in the London–New York overlap may bleed in Sydney, where the range is smaller than the spread.
Convert prices when you compare physical and spot markets. Jewellers and local dealers quote per gram or per tael, while the screen quotes per troy ounce. The converter keeps the comparison honest.

Why gold needs its own calculators

XAU/USD does not behave like a currency pair. One standard lot is 100 troy ounces, so a $1 move in the gold price is $100 of profit or loss — a scale that makes a $10 stop on a single lot a $1,000 risk. Contract specifications also differ between brokers: some quote gold in lots of 100 ounces, others in lots of 10 or in CFDs sized per unit. That is why a generic forex pip calculator gives the wrong answer, and why every tool here asks for the contract size or works directly from the ounce price.

Gold also trades nearly around the clock, but liquidity is not evenly distributed across those hours. Spreads that sit at 20–30 cents during the overlap can triple in the late Sydney session, and slippage on stops becomes far more likely when the book is thin. Pairing the volatility page with the session clock gives you a realistic picture of what your stop distance needs to be at any given hour.

All ten tools are static pages: the maths runs in JavaScript in your browser, results update as you type, and no price data or account details leave your device. Use them as a pre-trade checklist rather than a prediction engine. They tell you what a trade costs and what it risks — the direction is still your call.

Educational tools only. Calculations use the inputs you provide and standard contract conventions (1 lot = 100 oz unless stated). They do not account for broker-specific contract specs, financing charges or slippage. Trading gold with leverage carries a substantial risk of loss.

Put the numbers to work — trade gold →