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Futures Fee Calculator

What a round trip actually costs, as a percentage of your margin — and how far the market has to move before you break even.

Round trip cost—
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Breakeven move needed—
Fee drag per month—

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One figure rarely settles a position. These are the others.

Funding Rate Calculatorwhat holding it costs per dayPosition Size Calculatorhow large the position should have beenLiquidation Price Calculatorwhere the position stops existing

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Why this number decides whether a strategy is viable

Assume 0.06% taker in and 0.06% taker out. That is 0.12% of notional per round trip. At 10x leverage it is 1.2% of your margin, per trade, before the market moves at all. Three trades a day for twenty trading days is 72% of margin paid in fees in a month.

Three levers, in order of size

  1. Maker instead of taker. Posting a limit order rather than crossing the spread takes the round trip from 0.12% to roughly 0.04% — a 3x reduction. Most retail flow is 100% taker out of impatience, not necessity.
  2. Volume tiers. Fee schedules step down with 30-day volume. A lot of traders are paying tier-0 rates on tier-2 volume because they never checked where they sit.
  3. Fee rebates. Affiliate and broker programmes return part of the fee. That is disclosed in the footer, because it is how this site is funded.

Cutting your fee rate improves expectancy by arithmetic, with no forecast required. Improving your entries requires being right about the future. Do the arithmetic one first.

Questions

Is the fee rate the exchange advertises the one I pay?

Often not. Front pages quote a headline, the fee page quotes a range, and the order ticket quotes the rate for the contract in front of you -- and on one venue checked in September those three were 0.02%, 0.000%~0.040% and 0.04%. Both of the first two were technically true and neither was the number that billed. The ticket is the one to read.

What is the difference between maker and taker, in money?

A maker order rests in the book and waits; a taker order crosses the spread and fills now. On a typical schedule that is 0.02% against 0.06%, so a round trip is roughly 0.04% instead of 0.12% -- three times cheaper for the same position, paid for with patience. Most retail flow is taker out of impatience rather than necessity.

Do fee discounts for holding the exchange's token actually work?

They are real and they are conditional. A discount typically applies only while you hold enough of the token to pay the fee with, stops the moment that balance runs out, and on at least one venue has to be moved into the futures wallet separately before it applies there. Marketing surfaces and the account's own fee page have also been seen quoting different percentages on the same day.

How much do fees matter next to funding?

It depends entirely on how long you hold. Fees are paid twice, at open and close, and are fixed. Funding is paid every eight hours for as long as the position is open. Below about two days the fee is the larger cost; past that funding overtakes it and keeps going.

Are volume tiers worth chasing?

Rarely, on purpose. Tiers step down with thirty-day volume, and trading more to reach one costs more in fees than the tier saves. They matter for reading a schedule honestly -- most published rates are tier zero, which is the worst rate the venue charges anyone.