What +1R means

Most traders lose money not because they're wrong more than they're right — they lose because their wins are too small and their losses aren't. +1R is the discipline that fixes that: never take a trade unless it offers, at minimum, a reward equal to the risk you're putting up. If you're risking $1 to make $1, that's a "1R" trade. Anything less isn't worth the setup.

It sounds obvious. Almost no one actually follows it. Most traders enter based on conviction or excitement, not on whether the math of the trade clears this simple bar first. +1R is the filter Aspen runs every setup through before it counts as a trade — a floor, not a ceiling, and the difference between trading and gambling.