Size the position, price the spread, check the hour. Every calculator runs entirely in your browser — no account, no sign-up, nothing sent to a server.
Tap any card. Results update as you type, on the same page, with no reload.
Gold trades nearly 24 hours, but the character of the tape changes with the session.
| 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. |
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. That scale is what makes a $5 stop on a single lot a $500 risk — and why a position that felt small on paper can wipe out a week of gains in one afternoon.
Contract specifications differ between brokers, too. Some quote gold in lots of 100 ounces, others in lots of 10, others as a CFD sized per unit. A generic forex pip calculator silently assumes 100,000 units and returns an answer that is wrong by orders of magnitude. Every tool here either asks for the contract size or works directly from the ounce price, so the number you get matches the instrument you actually trade.
Take a concrete case. You have $5,000, you risk 1% per trade — $50 — and your stop sits $5 below entry. Fifty dollars divided by five dollars per ounce is 10 oz, or 0.10 of a standard lot. At 0.10 lots a $1 gold move is worth $10, so a target $12 away pays $120 gross: a 2.4 R trade, before the spread takes its cut.
Hours matter as much as size. Spreads that sit at 20–30 cents during the London–New York 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 a realistic picture of how wide your stop needs to be at any given hour.
All twelve tools are static pages: the maths runs in JavaScript on your device, results update as you type, and no price data or account detail leaves the browser. Use them as a pre-trade checklist, not a prediction engine — they tell you what a trade costs and what it risks. Direction is still your call.
The most-used calculators on the site, in the order most traders need them.
No. Every calculator is a static page that runs in your browser. You can use them with JavaScript enabled and nothing else — no email, no login, no data sent anywhere.
Unless a field says otherwise, 1 standard lot = 100 troy ounces, which is the convention for XAU/USD. Brokers that quote 10-ounce lots or per-unit CFDs will need the lot size adjusted accordingly.
No. They apply the inputs you provide to standard formulas. They do not account for broker-specific contract specs, financing charges, weekend gaps or slippage — treat them as arithmetic, not as a recommendation.
Usually because of contract size or quote precision. A "pip" in gold is normally $0.01, and one pip on 1 lot (100 oz) is $1. Some platforms define a pip as $0.10, which multiplies every figure by ten.
XAU/USD spot, 0 spread, settlement published per order.
Open the trading deskEducational tools only. Calculations use the inputs you provide and standard contract conventions (1 lot = 100 oz unless stated). Trading gold with leverage carries a substantial risk of loss.