Risk/Reward Ratio Calculator

Enter your entry, stop, and target to see your reward-to-risk ratio — and the exact win rate you'd need just to break even. Updates as you type. Free, no signup.

Works for longs or shorts — the calculator uses the distance from entry to your stop and target, whichever direction you trade.

Your trade

Reward : Risk2 : 1
Risk per share$5.00
Reward per share$10.00
Breakeven win rate33.3%

You only need to win 33.3%of the time to break even at this reward:risk. Win more than that and you're +EV — assuming you actually hit your targets and honor your stops.

Planning the ratio is easy. Knowing your realwin rate per setup is the hard part — that's what your trade history tells you.

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Why reward:risk and win rate are inseparable

A reward:risk ratio is meaningless on its own — it only matters relative to how often you win. The link is the breakeven win rate:

breakeven win rate = risk ÷ (risk + reward) = 1 ÷ (1 + R:R)

At 2:1 you break even winning just 33.3% of the time; at 1:1 you need 50%; at 1:2 (a bad trade) you need to win 66.7%. That's why chasing tiny targets with wide stops quietly destroys accounts — the required win rate becomes impossible.

The number that's hard to get right

Planning a 2:1 trade is trivial. Knowing your actual win rate for that setup — across dozens of trades, after slippage and the times you bailed early — is what tells you whether 2:1 is enough. That answer lives in your trade history. TradeFlow Quantum computes it per setup automatically. Start a free 7-day trial — no card required →