Risk Management
Risk of Ruin Calculator
Enter your win rate, reward:risk ratio, and the percent of capital you risk per trade to estimate your risk of ruin: the modeled probability of losing your account down to a level you can't come back from, under a fixed-fractional betting model.
Average winning trade size divided by average losing trade size, in R.
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Educational tool only, not financial advice. Uses a simplified fixed-fractional gambler's-ruin approximation with independent trades and a constant edge. Live trading has streaks, correlation, and an edge that changes.
Built by Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges.