What's your Edge

Hi Folks, I hope you are all well and good.

I was just curious to ask; if you would willing to share the percentage edge you currently work with on your best strategy. Just so people can have a rough idea of what a reasonable edge looks like.

 

Best edge is 30% to 100%
Discretionary edge varies depending on how many stupid mistakes made.

 

Edge will go up and down like a whore's drawers.

 

The edge I have is that my losses are smaller then my winners. Like 5r wins or more, with outliers of 20r to 50r.

 

I should have added one too , keep on posting!!

On a breakout with R:R 1 (TP) :2 (SL) , I would need to win at least 66.67% of my trades to break even. Win rates are currently in the range 80 ~ 85% so my edge would be

85% - 66.67% = 18.33% Edge.

Example Calculation

If I enter 200 trades a year and risk £10,000 to make £5,000 on each trade, the run rate return should be:

[5,000 * (200 * 0.85)] - [10,000*(200*0.15)] = 850,000 - 300,000 = 550,000

Assuming 10,000 is 2.5% of my account balance (400,000), then the annual growth should be 550,000/400,000 = 1.375 assuming no withdrawals.

edit: 950,000/400,000 = 2.375

 

Every trader does that calculation lol.

 

Sharing is caring, let's see yours.

 

My breakeven if 50% and my win rate is 85% so you can do the math.

 

That's a big edge. What do you do, what's the signal count.

 

Most of the edge came from trading better, not the signal.