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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.

Expectancy per trade (R)···
Risk units to ruin···
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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.

Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges

Built by Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges.

Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges

Built by Jason Parker, founder of Trading Ranges.