Edge map
Win rate and reward to risk, after costs, on one map.
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Cost check
Every trade starts in the red by the spread and the commission, and every night held adds swap. See what that is in money, as a share of what you risk, and over a year of your trading.
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What it costs
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Costs take 3.7% of your risk on every trade. Light enough that the result depends on your trading, not on the costs.
- One round trip
- $3.70: spread $3.00, commission $0.70.
- Against your risk
- The stop risks $100.00; costs are 0.04 of it (spread alone 0.03). So a trade with a 1-to-1 target really wins about 0.96 and loses about 1.04 of the risk.
- A month and a year
- $148.00 a month at 40 trades, $1,776.00 a year: 17.8% of a $10,000.00 account before a single loss.
Put these costs into the drawdown simulator to see what they do to your losing streaks and your safe size.
Spread 0.3 in price (3.0 pips). Swap is charged per night held; many brokers charge three nights on Wednesday. Slippage is not included and usually adds to the cost.
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.
Why a close stop is an expensive stop
The spread is paid in price, not in risk. On gold a 30-cent spread is 3% of a 10-dollar stop but 30% of a 1-dollar stop. The tighter the stop and the more often you trade, the more of every win goes to costs before it reaches you. This is the main reason short-term systems that look good on a chart lose money in a real account.
Baroq's research judges every idea after spread, commission and swap, and again with the costs doubled, because an edge that only survives cheap costs is not an edge. The results are on the record. Size the trade with the position size calculator and check it before the click with the pre-trade check. Choosing between a raw spread account with commission and a spread-only one? Compare the two at your size.
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Baroq never holds your money and never trades for you. Educational only, not financial advice; trading involves risk.