1R measures the loss. Turned around, it measures the win.
Short · Risk & sizing · October 4, 2026
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If one R is what you're risking, two R is twice that and three R is three times, measured up from your entry. In at a hundred with the stop at ninety-five: a hundred and five, a hundred and ten, a hundred and fifteen. On fifty shares, that's what a win is worth.
The lesson in writing
One R measures a loss. Turned around, it measures the win.
What it is
If one R is what you're risking, two R is twice that and three R is three times. Easy math — measured up from your entry.
What satisfies you? What makes you happy? What do you want to win by? That is the question the ruler turns into a number.
How it's worked out
Say you're back in at a hundred. We already know ninety-five is what you're willing to go down to for the loss, so one R is five dollars a share.
If you're up one R you're at a hundred and five. Up two R, a hundred and ten. Up three R, a hundred and fifteen.
Now say you're in fifty shares. Up one R, that's two hundred and fifty bucks. Up two R, five Bennies. Up three R, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Where Olympia calculates it
Olympia carries those in the target menu, off your own stop — each one a price, not a percentage for you to work out.
Because they are measured from the stop you chose, the menu changes when your stop does. The number you're willing to lose is the same number that tells you what you think a win is.
Example numbers, not a member's: in at $100, stop at $95, 50 shares, in Olympia's I'm In window. Arithmetic on those inputs, not a forecast.
