Reward:Risk Calculator for Futures Traders

Win rate and reward:risk trade off against each other directly — a 40% win rate at 2:1 beats a 60% win rate at 1:1. Enter both below to see your real expectancy and the breakeven win rate you actually need to clear.

Expectancy per trade

+0.35R

per unit risked, on average

Breakeven win rate

33.3%

at this R:R, below this you lose money long-run

At a 2:1 reward:risk, you need to win more than 33.3% of trades just to break even. At 45%, your edge is real — the math works in your favor, before commissions and slippage eat into it.

Points, ticks, and dollars

The same R means a different dollar figure on every contract. Convert any move between points, ticks, and dollars using CME's published specs — pick the contract, enter the move in whichever unit you have.

Points

10

Ticks

40

Dollars

$500

E-mini S&P 500: 1 tick = 0.25 pts = $12.5 · 1 point = $50 per contract. CME published specs, not estimates.

Every futures prop-firm evaluation and funded account lives or dies on this math. Confidence in a setup doesn't change the arithmetic — only your win rate and your reward:risk ratio do.

This is the same calculator built into Firmtrack's demo, where it's run against a trader's own logged trades instead of hypothetical numbers — see the full research and methodology behind it.