Crypto Percentage Loss Calculator

Work out the percentage loss between a starting price and the price now, the gain needed to get back, or the price a given loss would leave.

Your prices

The starting price is the price you bought at, or a past high.

Your investment, optional

What you put in at the starting price, to see the loss in rupees.

Your percentage loss

Fill in your prices and choose Calculate Loss. Your figures appear here.

Gain Needed to Recover

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The rise that gets back to the starting price

Price Change Per Coin

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Price now − starting price

Value Now

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Enter the amount invested to see this

Loss in Rupees

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Enter the amount invested to see this

Percentage Loss

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Fall in price ÷ starting price × 100

Prices only. Fees are not counted. For a holding with a quantity and fees, use the Crypto Loss Calculator. For a rise in price, use the Crypto Percentage Gain Calculator.

How it is calculated

A percentage loss is the fall in price measured against the price you started from.

  • Percentage loss = (starting price − price now) ÷ starting price × 100
  • Price after a loss = starting price × (1 − loss ÷ 100)
  • Gain needed to recover = starting price ÷ price now, minus 1, as a percentage
  • Price change = price now − starting price, for one coin
  • Value now = amount invested × price now ÷ starting price
  • Loss in rupees = amount invested − value now

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on percentage losses and on what it takes to recover from one.

Subtract the price now from the starting price, divide by the starting price and multiply by 100. If you bought at ₹32,00,000 and the price is now ₹24,00,000, the loss is ₹8,00,000 ÷ ₹32,00,000 × 100 = 25%. The starting price can also be a past high, to see how far a coin has fallen from its peak.

More than the loss, because the gain is measured from a smaller price. Divide the starting price by the price now and take away 1. After the 25% loss above, the price has to rise 33.33% to get back to ₹32,00,000. A 50% loss needs a 100% gain and a 90% loss needs a 900% gain, as the table under the result shows.

Multiply the starting price by 1 minus the loss. A 40% loss on ₹32,00,000 leaves ₹32,00,000 × 0.6 = ₹19,20,000. Choose “The price after a loss” in the calculator to work this out, for example to see where a stop-loss would sit.

No. A price cannot go below zero, so 100% is the most a coin you hold can lose, and nothing recovers from zero. Trading with leverage is different: a much smaller fall can wipe out the money you put up. The Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator shows where that happens.

This page compares two prices. The Crypto Loss Calculator works on a holding: it takes your quantity and fees, gives your break-even price and shows what buying more at the current price would do.

No. Under Section 115BBH, a loss from one crypto asset cannot be set off against any other income, including gains on other crypto, and it cannot be carried forward to later years. Use the India Crypto Tax Calculator for the tax on a sale.

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