Anyone find it funny that Risk/Reward ratio's are said backwards?

If you risk 1, reward 2, your risk/reward ratio isn't 1/2 it's 2:1 hehehe.

I just always thought it was funny. Thought I'd share. Should be Reward/Risk ratio to me.

It's correct. Risk/Reward is read as "Risk against Reward". R:R is read as "Reward to Risk"-- sometimes it's "Reward per unit of Risk" if you fix the risk by one unit.

Not entirely sure, though. But that's how I understand it.

I took it as like a slope written in fraction form "rise/run", or "rise over run." "Risk over reward."

Someone had corrected me that I was giving my rr's in 1:2 or 1:4 on FF and said I was saying them backwards.

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and I am by no means new to trading hahaha

I always say, "risk reward" but always type it reward:risk to correctly express the ratio the way everyone really means.

Probably something about the phonetics of English that makes it easier to say the "wrong" way.

i think it should be risk is wrote first, cos each trader should think about the risk before the reward (that probably we couldn't get), think the risk than the reward after that. so (from) risk (to) reward.

"Risk/Reward" just the way to say so that trader can focus on risk. However, when talking about number, we might do the opposite like, "If I risk $1, how much I could get, the answer is $2. So, we focus on the reward"
Yes, it do feel funny for me.

no matter how it's written, I always assume the bigger number is the reward...

Going on a tangant, but shoudln't the risk reward factor/percentage also include the probability of the trade?

If I go random with a stop and take profit, okey, it's 2:1. But it doesn't seem honest. What if it has no chance of getting a reward, should it really still be 2:1? What if you had the perfect once in a lifetime setup, should that be 2:1 as the same?

It is very hard to quantify, there's no sure thing, but I always find it funny that we go on our stoploss versus takeprofit when a big chunk is looking for good trades just as much.

x:y just means the ratio of x to y, its just standard math expression, at least thats what I remember from skool...way back when...

Yes, since R:R alone does not achieve anything. Seems conveniently overlooked by many.

Blame whoever came up with the term "risk to reward ratio". Obviously, they were not paying attention to how common betting odds are stated, which is how R:R is derived.