Trading Calculators

Work out what a trade is worth before you place it. Compare laying a player against backing their opponent for the same money, hedge a position you already hold, check the strike rate a price needs to break even, and count ticks on the exchange ladder. Nothing here is a tip or a prediction – it is arithmetic on the prices you enter.

Trade Value

Laying a player, or backing their opponent, with the same amount at risk – which returns more?
Market prices
Value comparison
Lay liability—
Required lay stake—
Lay net profit if player loses—
Back stake / amount at risk—
Back net profit if opponent wins—
Lay equivalent opposing back price—
Enter the current exchange prices.
Both routes risk the same amount: £100 of lay liability against a £100 back stake.

Hedging an open position

The stake that leaves the same profit whoever wins – greening up.
You backed first
Required lay stake—
Lay liability—
Profit either way, before commission—
Roughly, after commission—
You laid first
Required back stake—
Initial lay liability—
Profit either way, before commission—
Roughly, after commission—
The commission figure is an estimate applied to a positive result. Exchanges charge on net winnings per market, so your settled figure can differ slightly.

Strike Rate

How often a price has to come in before it breaks even, and the price a strike rate needs.
Backing
Break-even strike rate—
Break-even minimum odds—
Laying
Break-even lay-win strike rate—
Break-even maximum lay odds—
For laying, the strike rate is the share of selections where the player you laid loses. Commission is included in every figure.

Tick Ladder

A tick is one step on the exchange price ladder, and the step size changes as the price rises.
Move a price by ticks
Enter a price and a number of ticks to see the price that far above and below it.
Odds + 20 ticks—
Odds − 20 ticks—
Ticks between two prices
Enter two prices to count the ticks between them.
Number of ticks—
The Betfair decimal ladder, 1.01 to 1000. Prices must sit on it.