Strategy level calculator
The strategy's rules are fixed. The price, and the levels that fall out of it, are yours.
Last checked 24 July 2026 · free, no sign-up
The strategy sets the percentages. You set the price.
Every strategy in the desk's library carries two numbers that never change: how far below entry it stops out, and how far above it takes profit. Those are rules of the method, tested that way across the desk's whole history. This tool loads them for the strategy you pick and lays them on a price you type — so the stop, the target and the risk-to-reward are yours, derived from a published rule, not a call the desk made on a particular share.
Then it sizes the trade the desk's way
Once you add your capital and how much of it you are willing to risk on the trade, the share count follows Rule 4 — the desk's own sizing rule, the same code that runs in the position size calculator. It sizes off the stop distance so a stop-out costs a fixed fraction of your capital, then caps the position at 8% of capital by value so one name cannot dominate. Whichever constraint bites first is the one you see.
A zero is the answer, not an error
If the share count comes back zero, the strategy's stop is too wide for your risk budget at the price you entered — the setup does not fit your capital. That is a real answer. The temptation is to widen the risk until a position appears; that is exactly the move the rule exists to stop. A tighter setup or a different strategy is the honest lever.
Nothing you type here is stored, sent anywhere, or attached to any analytics event. The stop and target percentages are a strategy's published methodology, not a target on a named security. Research, not advice — the desk never executes trades and this is not a recommendation to take a position.
FAQ
Common questions
Does the desk tell me the entry, stop and target for a specific stock?
No. A price target or stop-loss on a named stock, once published to the public, is a regulated research service and the desk is not licensed for that. What the desk publishes is which strategy is triggering on a name and how that strategy has performed on its own history — general commentary. The stop and target percentages are the strategy’s own rules; you apply them to a price you choose, here, in your browser.
Where do the stop and target percentages come from?
Each is a fixed rule of the strategy itself, published in the desk’s strategy library and used unchanged in its backtests. Picking a strategy loads its two percentages; the stop sits that far below the price you enter and the target that far above. Nothing about the number depends on which stock you have in mind — that is the whole point.
Is the share count the same as the position size calculator?
Yes — it is the same Rule 4 formula, running the same code. Size by stop distance so a stop-out costs a fixed fraction of your capital, then cap the position value at 8% of capital. If you plug the same entry, stop, capital and risk into the position size calculator you will get the identical share count.
It shows zero shares. Is that broken?
No, it is the honest answer. Zero means that at the price you entered, this strategy’s stop is too wide for your risk budget — the position it implies rounds to nothing. The lever is a tighter setup or a different strategy, never a bigger risk budget. The desk discards its own candidates the same way.
Does this mean I should buy?
No. This is a calculator that turns a strategy’s published rules into levels on a price you supply. It is not a recommendation, the desk does not execute trades, and losses are a normal part of any strategy. Research, not advice.
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