Let volatility, not hope, place your stop
ATR stops keep you from putting a stop right where the market naturally breathes. By deriving both the stop distance and the position size from real volatility, this tool fixes your risk in dollars while adapting to conditions. Convert the stop distance into a hard share count on the position size calculator.
Stops sized by the market's actual wiggle
ATR — average true range — measures how far a coin typically travels in a period. An ATR-based stop places your exit a multiple of that range away (commonly 1.5–2× ATR), which means the stop automatically widens in wild markets and tightens in calm ones. Fixed-percent stops treat a memecoin and a stablecoin pair identically; ATR stops don't.
Worked example: a coin at $10 with a daily ATR of $0.45 gets a 2×ATR stop at $9.10 — 9% away. The same rule on a calmer coin with $0.15 ATR puts the stop 3% away. Same discipline, different distances, each fitted to what the instrument actually does on a normal day.
The sizing consequence is the point: wider volatility-fitted stops force proportionally smaller positions (risk = size × stop distance, held constant). The system quietly caps your exposure to the wildest instruments — which is exactly where oversizing does its damage. Traders who resist ATR stops usually aren't objecting to the stop placement; they're objecting to being told the honest position size.