Yeah to Maxinger. a four tick loss plus spread and commissions will add up quickly. So really he is talking 5.3 tick loss to a 0.7 tick gain. What could go wrong? 2 ticks imo is too small because you pay 1 tick for entry and about .3 ticks in comms. Absolute percentages matter.... Also it is not as if ES moves a small number of ticks per minute or hour. There is a sweet spot of trimming gains relative to commissions, spread and risk. 2 ticks is a bit like saying you should eat your bait instead of fishing with it.
Aren't commisions not far off 2 ticks? So +$25 - comms per trade, fair play for living on $75 - comms.
A reward risk ratio of 1:2 is extremely bad. It simply means the newbie trader is still struggling. He probably started with rr ratio of 2:1. Then it degraded to 1:1 and further degraded to 1:2 to 1:5 to 1:10 to...
%% Prefer more than 2 ticks; but most anything can work in as bull market uptrend.I can eat like a king on 20% hit rate for fast flying doves doVes. Have also a plan b\ because ''almost never have a losing trade''=small sample.