About the Brokerage Total Cost Calculator
What is the Brokerage Total Cost Calculator?
Frequent trading adds up. This trading cost calculator multiplies the charges on a typical round trip by the number of trades you make, and compares the yearly total with your capital.
The result is the return you must earn just to cover costs before making any profit.
How to use the Brokerage Total Cost Calculator
- Segment (sample: Equity intraday)
- Round-Trip Trades per Month (sample: 40)
- Average Buy Value per Trade (₹, premium for options) (sample: 1,00,000)
- Trading Capital (₹) (sample: 3,00,000)
- Delivery Brokerage per Order (₹) (sample: 0)
- Press Calculate Yearly Trading Costs (results also refresh as you type). The result card shows the Yearly Trading Costs, along with Cost per round trip, Monthly costs, Costs as % of capital per year and Of which STT per year.
Formula used
Yearly cost = Charges per round trip × Trades per month × 12
- Hurdle = yearly cost ÷ capital
SEBI studies found that about 9 in 10 individual F&O traders lose money. Trade only with money you can afford to lose.
Worked example
These are the sample values already filled in the calculator above, and the result it returns for them:
| Input | Sample value |
|---|---|
| Segment | Equity intraday |
| Round-Trip Trades per Month | 40 |
| Average Buy Value per Trade (₹, premium for options) | 1,00,000 |
| Trading Capital (₹) | 3,00,000 |
| Delivery Brokerage per Order (₹) | 0 |
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Yearly Trading Costs | ₹39,574 |
| Cost per round trip | ₹82.45 |
| Monthly costs | ₹3,298 |
| Costs as % of capital per year | 13.2% |
| Of which STT per year | ₹12,000 |
| Return needed just to cover costs | 13.2% |
Tips for using the Brokerage Total Cost Calculator
- Trading less often is the simplest way to cut costs.
- Compare brokers on total charges, not only brokerage.