163 THE CANDLESTICK TRADING BIBLE If the market moves in your favor, you will win an amount of money
equal to 3$ per pip. If you make 20 pips, you would have profited 60$.
Let’s break it down, 1standard lot is worth about 10$ per pip. And
1mini lot is worth about 1$ per pip, and 1 micro lot is equal to 10 cents.
If you open a mini trading account, you should think in term of the
dollars risked instead of pips.
Let’s say you put 50 pips stop loss and 100 pips as a profit target. This
means that if the market hits your stop loss you will lose 50 pips which
is 50$, and if the market hit the profit target, you will win 100$.
The size of your position depends on whether you have a standard or
a mini account, and how many lots you are trading. This information is
important to you because this will help you know how much money
you risk on each trade.
The risk to reward ratio The risk to reward ratio concept is what will make you a winner in the
long run. Before you enter any trade, you have to know how much
money you will win if the market goes in your favor, and how much
money you will lose if the market goes against you.
Don’t never enter a trade in which the profit is less than the amount
of money you risked.
If you will risk 100$ for example, your profit target should be at least
200$, this is a risk to reward ratio of 1:2.
Let’s suppose that you took 10 trades with 1:2 risks to reward ratio. In
every trade you risk 100$.
You won 5trades, and you lost 5 trades. So you will lose 500$.but you
will win 1000$.so the benefits is 500$.
This is the power of the risk to reward ratio, you shouldn’t think that
you have to win all your trades to become a successful trader. If you
164 THE CANDLESTICK TRADING BIBLE can take the advantage of the risk to reward ratio, you will always be
profitable.