A well-placed stop loss protects you from oversized losses; a well-placed take profit locks in your edge. This free stop loss calculator gives you the exact distance from entry to SL and TP, plus the resulting risk to reward ratio — everything you need to validate a forex or XAUUSD trade before clicking Buy or Sell.
Stop Loss Calculator is part of the free Aurex Trader calculator suite — 23 browser-based tools for gold (XAUUSD) and forex traders. Nothing is installed, no account is required, and every calculation runs locally in your browser.
Formula: SL Distance = |Entry − SL| | TP Distance = |TP − Entry| | R:R = TP Distance ÷ SL Distance Example: entry 2000, SL 1990 (10-point distance), TP 2020 (20-point distance) = 1:2 risk-reward.
Place your stop just beyond a structural level the market shouldn't reach if your trade idea is correct — the other side of a swing high/low, the far side of an order block, or 1.5× ATR from entry for volatility-based stops. Never use a fixed pip stop unrelated to price structure.
For most strategies yes — a tight stop and wider target creates a positive risk-reward, which is what makes a strategy profitable over many trades. If your TP is closer than your SL, you need a very high win rate to survive.
No. Trading without a stop loss on a leveraged account is how retail traders blow up. Even prop firms fail accounts that don't use stops. Every trade — every single one — needs a pre-defined stop before entry.
Gold is highly volatile, so validating SL and TP distance before entry is essential. Enter your gold prices normally — the SL/TP distances and R:R work identically for XAUUSD as for FX pairs.