Win Rate
The share of trades that closed profitable — meaningful only next to the size of wins versus losses.
What it means
Win rate alone is a marketing number: 90% winners loses money if the tenth trade gives back more than the nine took in; 35% winners prints money if winners dwarf losers. Expectancy — win rate and average win/loss together — is the number that pays.
Win rate does matter psychologically and structurally: low-win-rate systems endure long losing streaks that test both the trader and the statistics, and need more trades to prove their edge is real rather than luck.
Why traders care
- With average win/loss, gives expectancy — the per-trade edge.
- Predicts the losing-streak profile you must be sized to survive.
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Educational content, not investment advice. Engine details describe how TraderWe computes this value; other platforms may define it differently.