Trade journal statistics
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What the numbers mean
Expectancy is the average result per trade across the whole list - the single number that says whether the way you have been trading makes money on average. It is win rate and payoff combined; neither means anything alone.
Largest drawdown is measured on the running total: the deepest fall from any peak to the trough that followed. It is the number to compare against your tolerance, because it is the stretch you would have had to sit through to collect the total.
Twenty trades is a hint, not a verdict. Statistics this simple stabilise slowly, and a good month can hide an edge that does not exist. Treat the expectancy of a short list as a rough sketch.
Worked example
Six results: 150, −100, 300, −100, 50, −100.
- Win rate: 3 of 6 = 50.00%
- Average win 166.67, average loss 100.00
- Expectancy: 200 ÷ 6 = 33.33 per trade
A coin-flip win rate and a positive expectancy - the payoff asymmetry is doing all the work. The unit test suite pins these exact figures.
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