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Risk of Ruin Calculator
The Risk of Ruin (RoR) is a statistical model which tells you the chances you will lose all of your account based upon your win/loss % and how much % of your capital you put at risk per trade.
To understand why the risk of ruin is a number that is absolutely critical for a trader to know to know, check out this article where I talk about the history of the risk of ruin model and the mathematics behind it in detail.
To give you a quick idea about the risk of ruin, the table below shows you the probability of losing all your money in % based on your average payoff- and win ratio risking 1% per trade.
Using your own trading performance statistics, and with the RoR calculator above, you can calculate your own risk of ruin.