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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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Type in both groups of trades and press the button.

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.