TradersCALM - Improving Reward to Risk Ratio
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To get to a new destination with good feelings, it helps to know from where you are starting out.     It also pays to select from among possible routes to success, those that best fit your individual personality.

Find the best description of your current status in the table below - and then consider if the possible change fits your personality and current self-confidence level.     Then identify the typical percentage improvement you can expect in your reward to risk ratio (RtRR).

Your Current Status A Change Worth
Considering?
Typical RtRR
Improvement
Directional trading trading styles (such as trend-following) or a volatility break-out trading style on a single trading instrument. Switching to trading an instrument with a higher persistence. up to 700%
Directional trading trading styles (such as trend-following) or a volatility break-out trading style on a market with a high persistence. Switching to trading a ratio spread of highly correlated instruments. up to 200%
Directional trading trading styles (such as trend-following) or a volatility break-out trading style using a ratio spread of highly correlated instruments. Increasing profits per unit time by trading, in parallel, unrelated trading instruments on same or another trading system and employing position sizing techniques. 50% to 200%; more regular profits
At least two directional or volatility break-out trading styles using a ratio spread and using position sizing techniques. Switching to a single, but multiple entry style such as fading or arbitrage or employing non-directional ratio spreads. unlimited
A single, but multiple entry style such as fading or arbitrage or employing non-directional ratio spreads. Increasing profits per unit time by trading, in parallel, unrelated trading instruments on same or another trading system and employing position sizing techniques. unlimited;
more regular profits

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