Reviewing Your Swing Results

Your trade history tells you what is working. Here is how to measure win rate, average win and loss in R, and expectancy, and how to use them to improve.

Why review

A single trade tells you almost nothing: good trades can lose and bad trades can win. Twenty, fifty or a hundred trades start to show the truth. Reviewing them regularly is how you find out which setups pay you and which quietly drain your account.

A journal review by setup: average result per trade in R. Do more of what works.

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