Drawdown meaning in trading: the number that decides whether you survive
Drawdown trading meaning, with the arithmetic behind it: a -20% drawdown needs +25% to recover, -50% needs +100%. What your own trade history shows.
Read the articleWhat your trading says about you
The mirror
Expectancy, R-multiples, drawdown, sessions and the behaviours that cost you money.
You cut your winners: the disposition effect in trading
Disposition effect trading, measured on 10,000 accounts: why you sell winners 50 percent faster than losers, and what your own trade log would show.
Read the articleBest trading hours: your best hour isn't the one you think
Best trading hours are not the busiest hours. The London New York overlap moves the market; your journal shows which hour moves your expectancy in R.
Read the articleWin rate is a vanity metric: expectancy is the number that matters
A 1% win rate can be profitable and a 90% win rate can lose. Expectancy, R-multiples and two brokerage studies show which number your account tracks.
Read the articleR-multiples: the unit your P&L is missing
Two trades, both plus 400 euros, one great and one poor. R-multiples put every result in units of the risk you took, and show what a currency column hides.
Read the articleRevenge trading has a signature
Revenge trading is not a character flaw. It is a measurable pattern: five signatures in your trade history, and what thirty years of research on loss chasing says about it.
Read the articleSee it on your own trades
Your broker history already knows the answer.
Connect an account in read-only mode and Socius Trades turns your executions into expectancy, R-multiples, drawdown and results by session. We look. We never touch.
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