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Stop noise check

A stop that sits inside the market's normal wiggle gets hit on good ideas and bad ones alike. See how often noise alone would reach yours.

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Your stop and the noise

Type in your stop, the ATR and how long you hold, and press the button.

Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning

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Noise grows with time

Over one bar the price wanders about one ATR. Over four bars it wanders about twice that, over sixteen bars four times: the wiggle grows with the square root of time. So a stop that is safe for a quick scalp can sit deep inside the noise for a trade held all day. Either the stop widens with the holding time, or the holding time shrinks to fit the stop.

Widening the stop is not free risk: at the same money at risk the size shrinks in step, which the table shows. And a wider stop with the same target lowers the reward to risk, so the win rate has to rise to keep the edge.

Turn the stop into a lot size with the position size calculator, which can also set the stop from the ATR.
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Not advice and not a forecast. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not a test of a strategy.