Risk-to-reward

Distance to target versus distance to stop

What it is

The ratio between the distance from entry to target and from entry to invalidation. 1:3 means risking one unit to make three.

What it may suggest

A higher ratio lowers the win rate you need. At 1:1 you have to be right more than half the time. At 1:3 you only have to be right more than a quarter of the time. That is the whole argument for asymmetry.

Where it fails

Only meaningful if the target is realistic. A 1:10 measured to a level price has not reached in a year is arithmetic, not a plan.

Also called risk reward, r:r, rr ratio, r multiple.

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