Placing the stop and the target

The stop is not a distance, it is the answer to a question: from what price is my thesis wrong? The target is not a round number, it is the next real liquidity.

Where the target goes

The target is a zone of real liquidity: the next persistent band, the POC, the VWAP, the edge of the value area, the zone where the other side's stops are sitting. Never "+20 points because it makes a nice R:R". If the next real liquidity is too close to give an R:R of 2, the trade does not exist, even if the read is perfect.