If you ran this system 1,000 more times, what would the average trade pay you?
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Enter win rate, average win, and average loss. The calculator returns the expected value per trade and, if you give a number of trades, the expected result over that sample.
Loss Rate = 1 − Win Rate Expectancy = (Win Rate × Average Win) − (Loss Rate × Average Loss)
Win rate 45%, average win $300, average loss $150. Expectancy = 0.45 × 300 − 0.55 × 150 = $52.50 per trade. Over 100 trades, expected total ≈ $5,250.
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Any positive number is an edge before costs, but variance is real. A small per-trade expectancy still requires many trades to materialize statistically.
Educators commonly cite 100+ trades as a starting sample. Smaller samples are noisy.
It means either your geometry, your selection, or your execution needs work. Continuing without changes will compound the loss.
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