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"If you enter now: stop, targets, R and Recent events"

The Analysis panel's trade block answers the question before every entry: where would this be wrong, and how far could it run? It uses one rule for every trade, which makes it a yardstick — and shows why a tight stop can be the most expensive one.

You will learn
  • How the stop, the targets and R are placed
  • What the warnings and the order book row say
  • What Recent events adds, including its live lines

Before you start: The lessons on risk, position size and R in the Your plan module help.

One rule for every trade

The stop goes beyond the nearest level on the other side, together with any level within half an ATR behind it, plus 0.35 ATR, and never closer than 0.75 ATR. The targets are the next levels in the trade's direction. R is the distance to a target divided by the distance to the stop. With your account and risk per trade entered, the block adds a position size.

If you enter now — the modelled week: a long on Saturday at 10:00 with its stop, two targets and R; the size the stop implies; the model taking out the tight stop with one ordinary candle before reaching the target; a long against the downtrend on Wednesday with two warnings; the order book row on Saturday evening; Recent events with its live lines, liquidations and large trades; and the same block's next trade reaching its target first.

What the block does not do

It does not pick a side — Long is the default and Short is one click — and it does not forbid anything. Its warnings say what a trade would be betting against: the trend on most timeframes, a target nearer than the stop. The book row describes resting orders that can be pulled at any moment. Recent events lists what changed; on a live chart it also shows liquidations and large trades of the last minutes.

Its value is consistency: the same rule for the stop and the same yardstick for the reward on every trade, so a journal can show over many trades whether the rule makes money. One trade, won or lost, shows nothing.

Takeaways
  1. Stop: beyond the nearest level zone, plus 0.35 ATR, at least 0.75 ATR away.
  2. R = distance to the target ÷ distance to the stop; below 1R the target does not pay for the risk.
  3. Size = money at risk ÷ distance to the stop: a close stop means a big position.
  4. Warnings and the book row describe; Recent events lists what changed and, live, liquidations and large trades.

Open BTC in the terminal and read If you enter now for a long and a short

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Education only, not financial advice · Updated 28 Oct 2026 · Data: Binance · Report a mistake