Do the arithmetic first.
Two small tools that carry two of the path’s biggest lessons. Compound growth is why time in the market matters more than timing it. Position size is how a trader decides the risk before the trade, not during it. Both run right here in your browser. Nothing leaves this page unless you ask a tool to email you its result — then, and only then, the result and your email address travel, and the address is kept only as long as the send takes.
Compound growth
Start with an amount, add to it every month, and let a steady annual return compound. The lesson underneath: contributions are what you control; time is what does the heavy lifting. Try doubling the years and watch what happens to the growth share.
- Final value—
- You contributed—
- Growth added—
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This result, as it stands now, in your inbox — with the lesson behind the tool. Only if you ask: nothing is sent until you press the button.
Position size
Risk is a decision, not a surprise — but it is a budget, not a promise. Name the account, the share of it one trade may risk, a direction, an entry, and an assumed exit price: the level where the idea is wrong. The tool then answers two questions the arithmetic often blurs — how many shares the risk budget alone permits, and how many the stated capital actually funds. The estimated loss holds only if the exit executes at the assumed price; a gap or slippage can carry a real exit beyond it, and costs come on top. The same math the path teaches in depth: compounding and drawdown (Lesson 21) behind the first tool, and position sizing (Lesson 19) behind this one.
- Risk budget (the share of the account you chose)—
- Illustrative share quantity (risk math alone)—
- Notional exposure at that quantity—
- Shares the stated capital funds—
- Estimated planned risk at the assumed exit price, before costs—
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This plan, as it stands now, in your inbox — with the lesson behind the tool. Only if you ask: nothing is sent until you press the button.
These calculators are teaching tools. The compound tool assumes a smooth return every year; real markets are jagged, and no return is guaranteed. Nothing here is financial advice.