What is r multiples?
Your result measured in units of what you risked, rather than in dollars.
Your result measured in units of what you risked, rather than in dollars.
R multiples, explained
One R is the money you put at risk on that trade. A close that made twice the risk is +2R; one that hit the stop is −1R. Because R cancels out size, a $200 risk and a $2,000 risk can be read side by side on the same page.
A worked example
Risked $200 and closed +$600 → +3R. Risked $2,000 and closed +$1,000 → +0.5R. The smaller position was the better decision.
Where r multiples shows up in a journal
A trading journal is where this stops being a definition and becomes your own number. sizeforzero computes it from the trades you import or log, alongside the rest of your analytics vocabulary, and every figure in the app carries an (i) that explains it in the same plain English you just read.