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Title: What is Best Risk Reward Ratio Forex Trading


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What is Risk Reward Ratio in Forex Trading
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Index
  • What is a Risk Reward Ratio?
  • Use a Risk Reward Ratio
  • Types of Risk Reward Ratio

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What is a Risk Reward Ratio?
  • The risk-reward ratio is simply a calculation of
    how much you are willing to risk in the trade,
    versus how much you plan to aim for as a profit
    target.
  • To keep it simple, if you were making a trade and
    set your take profit at 20 pips, your risk-reward
    ratio would be 520 or 14.
  • You are risking your five pips for the chance to
    gain 20 pips.

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Use a Risk Reward Ratio
  • The basic theory for the risk-reward ratio is to
    look for opportunities where the reward outweighs
    the risk.
  • The higher the possible rewards, the more failed
    trades your account can withstand at a time.
  • Think about it this way, and if you were to use
    the example above and have a successful trade, it
    buffers you against four losing trades with the
    same ratio.

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  • The idea of using an excellent risk-reward ratio
    is to put the odds in favour.
  • If you consistently did the 520 ratio, you could
    lose half of your trades and still make a fair
    profit.
  • Typically, risk reward is beneficial when the
    price is near important support or resistance.

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  • Example
  • If EUR/USD is in a downtrend and price has
    delayed near resistance and could be posting the
    lower high, the risk reward would likely favour
    a sell trade with a smaller protective stop above
    the entry and larger take profit in the direction
    of the trend.

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Types of Risk Reward Ratio
  • The type of risk-reward ratio that traders should
    use depends on the type of trader you are and the
    market requirements.
  • It would be ideal if you could ever find trades
    that had high rewards and low risk, but what you
    might find in actuality could be very different.

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  • Its frowned on to have a risk that is larger than
    the reward, but if the market is volatile, it
    might make sense.
  • The point of having a stop loss is not only to
    protect capital but also to stop your trade once
    it no longer makes any sense.
  • Sometimes the point where the trade stops making
    some sense is much farther from the opening
    market price than safe exit.

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  • When it comes down to it, it is up to you as a
    trader to figure out what type of risk-reward
    ratio you want to use.
  • You should try to avoid having your risk be
    bigger than your reward, particularly if you are
    a beginner, but no particular ratio works for all
    traders.
  • The important thing is that you use a ratio that
    makes sense for your trading style and market
    conditions.

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