Risk/reward calculator
Your risk/reward ratio decides how often you have to be right to make money. Enter a trade below and see the ratio — plus the break-even win rate it demands.
- Risk : reward
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- Break-even win rate
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- Risk / reward ($)
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How to read it
- · Risk : reward = distance to take-profit ÷ distance to stop. A 1:3 means you risk 1 to make 3.
- · Break-even win rate = 1 ÷ (1 + reward-to-risk). At 1:3 you only need to win ~25% of the time to break even.
This is why win rate alone is misleading — a high reward-to-risk lets a low win rate be very profitable. Shibiki tags every trade's R-multiple and computes your real expectancy from it.
FAQ
What's a good risk/reward ratio?
Many traders aim for at least 1:2. But the "right" ratio is whatever gives a positive expectancy at your actual win rate — the break-even figure above tells you the minimum.
Related: position size · expectancy