Volatility-based sizing: what's your formula?

Risking the same money per trade ignores that some days move twice as much as others. Volatility-based sizing scales positions down when ATR is high and up when it's low, keeping risk roughly constant in market terms.

Volatility-based sizing: what's your formula? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

What's your method?

  • the ATR period and the risk target
  • how position size changes across your pairs
  • whether it changed your drawdowns
Volatility-based sizing: what's your formula? — support and resistance diagram
Price bouncing between support and resistance

The ATR guide has the full formula with examples.

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