This is the power of your average risk
reward ratio over a series of trades coming into play; we will see this in action below...
Not exact matches
Over at Make Money Your Way, Rolf from Tradecitey.com explains the importance of risk
reward ratio and how to use it.
We buy stocks with the potential to go up 50 % or more
over the next two years, with a
reward - to - risk
ratio of three to one.
With a potential
reward of just
over 2 points, combined with 1 point of risk, this setup still provides you with a decent
reward - risk
ratio of better than 2:1 (just
over 2 points
reward with 1 point risk).
I really like the
over 2.25 goals in this game as the risk /
reward ratio seems highly stacked in our favour.
if do the same thing
over and
over again in multiple bets risk
reward ratio is in our favour..
Professional traders like me and many others concentrate on risk to
reward ratios, and not so much on
over analyzing the markets or having unrealistically wide profit targets.
only one thing I don't understand: If you need 50 % of wins to BE on a 1:1 risk:
reward ratio, 33 % on a 1:2 r: r and 25 % on a 1:3 r: r shouldn't you need just
over those figures to make profit??
The key to my profits
over the long term were not my win / loss
ratios it was my risk /
reward ratios.
Statistically speaking, trading the Forex market with a 1:1 risk
reward ratio and no strategy or trading edge has a 50 % chance of success (minus fees)
over a long series of trades.
Keeping it simple with an edge that plays out
over time, along with a good risk /
reward ratio is how to survive in the game.
In my experience, I can target a 2:1
reward to risk
ratio with the bearish engulfing pattern and achieve a high enough strike rate (by combining it with a good trading system or the additional techniques below) to achieve consistent profits
over time.
If you want to see where your points (including Ultimate
Rewards and others) will transfer and in what
ratios, head
over to our Transfer Partner Calculator.
Rack up Membership
Rewards points with the following American Express credit cards and move them
over to KrisFlyer at a 1:1
ratio.
The transfer
ratio from Chase Ultimate
Rewards to Virgin Atlantic is 1:1 so in the example it is also
over 8.6 cents / points.
Amex Membership
Rewards and Chase Ultimate
Rewards both transfer
over to Iberia Plus at a
ratio of 1:1 and I have reasonable balances of both... but Chase was the obvious place to start.
The reason why I like Starpoints quite as much as I do is because they're so incredibly versatile — they can be transferred into to just about every major airline
rewards program out there (35 in total) and, in most cases, they transfer
over at a
ratio of 1 Starpoint to 1 airline mile.
While most people reading this blog may not have a lot of Hawaiian Airlines miles the airline is an Amex Membership
Rewards transfer partner so you could transfer
over enough points for an award (at a 1:1
ratio).
Earn up to 25,000 Starpoints which can be used for hotel redemption around the globe, transferred to
over 30 airline partners, and even transfer from Starwood to Marriott
Rewards at a 1:3
ratio.
Citi ThankYou
Rewards points transfer
over to 14 different airline loyalty programs and, just like with Chase Ultimate
Rewards, ThankYou points transfer
over to all of Citi's airline partners at a 1:1
ratio.
120,000 Hyatt points isn't an insignificant outlay but I'd received 100,000 Chase Ultimate
Rewards points (which convert to Hyatt at a
ratio of 1:1) for hitting my sign up target on the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card and I already had
over double that number of points in my account... so the award was well within my means.
And as far as hotel partners go, I'd roll with Ultimate
Reward partners Hyatt, Marriott, and IHG
over the transfer
ratios for SPG and Hilton.
Ultimate
Rewards outdo American Express Membership
Rewards with a 1:1 transfer
ratio to British Airways, which can be used to book relatively cheap domestic short - haul flights on American Airlines, not to mention other partner airlines all
over the world.
I especially love the hotel partners like Hyatt, because the transfer
ratio is awesome — just 30,000 Ultimate
Rewards points can get you a night in a top - tier Hyatt property that could easily cost well
over $ 1,000 per night in hot destinations such as the Maldives or Paris.
Apart from hotel redemptions, you can transfer Starpoints to
over 30 airline partners, and now also transfer points from Starwood to Marriott
Rewards at a 1:3
ratio, opening up even more redemption options.
Unfortunately, you can only convert Membership
Rewards points into Elevate points at a 2:1
ratio, but you can still easily get
over 2 cents of value out of each point, hence TPG pegging Elevate points at 2.4 cents apiece in his most recent valuations.
Average performance of funds spent on buying tokens or average
ratio between the current token price and token sale price
over the period (month, quarter, year), i.e. the average
reward per $ 1 spent on buying tokens during the token sale, if they are traded on exchanges for USD.