Win rate

The share of closed trades that made money.

Formula

Win rate = Winning trades ÷ All closed trades

How to read it

Meaningless alone: a 30% win rate can be very profitable if the winners are large, and a 90% one can lose money. Read it with the payoff ratio.

How to use it

Read it with the payoff ratio: the two together decide whether a strategy makes money.

In Kereon

Strategies. Trades with a profit above zero ÷ every closed trade. A trade that exactly breaks even counts as a loss.

Also called: win rate.

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