FREE CALCULATOR · BTKWIN
See the gain needed to return to your starting value after a percentage loss.
Use a decimal point for fractions. Commas are accepted for thousands, such as 1,000.50.
Your result
Enter your figures or try the example.Why recovery needs a larger percentage
A loss and a recovery gain use different starting points. After a loss, the gain is measured from a smaller remaining value. A 20% fall therefore requires a 25% gain to recover, rather than another 20% move. This calculator shows the remaining amount, loss amount and gain required to return to the original value.
Enter a starting value greater than zero and a loss from 0 to less than 100%. Use your own quote currency. The gain percentage depends only on the loss percentage; changing the original amount changes the money figures, not the recovery percentage.
The recovery formula
Remaining value = starting value × (1 − loss ÷ 100). Required gain (%) = loss ÷ (100 − loss) × 100. For a 50% loss on 1,000, the remaining value is 500. Returning from 500 to 1,000 requires another 500, which is a 100% gain on the remaining amount.
For a 10% loss, the required gain is about 11.11%; for 25%, it is about 33.33%; and for 80%, it is 400%. These are mathematical examples, not market predictions. Use “Try an example” to load the 50% case.
How to use the result
The output can help you compare the size of a drawdown with the recovery needed from the lower value. It does not estimate the time required, the probability of recovery or whether an asset will ever return to a previous price. A starting value is a reference point for the calculation, not a target that the market is obliged to reach.
The model assumes no deposits, withdrawals, distributions or further costs between the starting and recovery values. If you add funds, a return to the original account balance may partly reflect the new deposit. That is different from recovering through investment returns alone.
Limits of a percentage-only model
A 100% loss leaves no remaining value from which a percentage recovery can be earned, so the input must be below 100%. Values close to 100% produce very large recovery percentages. The calculator does not include inflation, taxes, changing exchange rates, borrowing costs or trading fees.
Use the profit calculator to model an entered buy and sell scenario after fees. Use the position-size calculator only if its cash-funded long-trade assumptions fit your case. Neither tool makes a trading decision for you, and none of these calculators connects to a wallet or saves your inputs.