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More trades or better trades?
More trades feels like more chances. Whether it is depends on the trades you add between your best setups. Put both in and see.
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Your trades
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The extra trades cost you. Each one loses 0.13 of the risk after costs, so 20 of them take about 2.6 times the risk a month from what your best setups earn.
| Best setups only (10) | All trades (30) | |
|---|---|---|
| Average month | +2.7 R | +0.1 R |
| Per trade | +0.27 R | +0.00 R |
| Months in the red | 26% | 49% |
| 1 month in 20 is worse than | -4.8 R | -11.4 R |
- What the extras need
- At 1.5 to 1 with costs of 8% of the risk, the extra trades break even at a 43.2% win rate. Yours: 38%.
- Costs a month
- 0.8 R on the best setups alone, 2.4 R with the extras. At 1% risk, 1R is 1% of the account.
Each trade is won or lost at random with the win rate you typed, independent of the others. Real extra trades are often worse than their numbers: they come after losses, when tired, or outside your hours.
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
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Why traders add trades
Waiting is hard, and a screen full of moving prices looks like a screen full of chances. So between the setups a trader trusts, other trades creep in: one that is almost the setup, one after a loss to get it back, one because the day was quiet. Every one of them pays the spread and the commission. Unless they have an edge of their own, they turn a good month into an average one.
Your journal can split the two groups: tag each trade "plan" or "other" and compare the win rates after a few months. If the extras come out below the break-even line here, the cheapest improvement is to take fewer of them.
- Your costs per trade, from your spread and commission: the cost check. Where the two groups sit on the edge map.
- Extra trades after losses are what a daily stop cuts: the daily stop tester shows the effect.
Not advice and not a forecast. The answer is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not a test of a strategy.
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