How many R did this trade actually make or lose me?
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Your Trade in R
Enter your entry, stop, and exit prices and click Calculate to see this trade's result measured in R, not just dollars.
How this is calculated
1R is your initial planned risk per share: the distance between your entry price and your original stop-loss price.
Your actual result per share is your exit price minus your entry price on a long trade, or your entry price minus your exit price on a short trade.
Your R-multiple is your actual result per share divided by your initial risk per share. A trade that made twice its planned risk is +2R. A trade that lost its full planned risk is -1R.
Thinking in R instead of dollars lets you compare a $50 account and a $50,000 account on the same scale, and it makes it obvious when a loss was bigger than your plan called for.
This calculator uses your original stop, not any stop you moved after entering. If you widened your stop mid-trade, your R-multiple on this trade is worse than a calculation based on the wider stop would suggest.
This is a single-trade calculation. Track R-multiples across many trades in your own journal to see your actual expectancy in R.
Risk & liability disclaimer: This calculator performs a simple arithmetic comparison between your entry, stop, and exit prices. It is not financial advice and does not evaluate whether any trade or strategy was appropriate for your account or risk tolerance. Trading involves risk of loss. Trading Habits is not a broker-dealer or registered investment adviser and does not have access to your actual trade or account data; all figures come from what you enter.
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