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Explaining that if you have a statistical edge, you should increase the number of trials to realize long-term profits.
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when you adjust it for your batting average ... you'd still be a two to one trader
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Calculating adjusted reward-to-risk by incorporating win rate into the payoff to show the trade remains profitable even with a sub-50% win rate.
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Win-rate × Risk-Reward Expectancy
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Evaluate edge by combining your win rate with average win and loss sizes to determine overall expectancy.
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Optimizing your trading so you're getting the biggest return in the shortest amount of time and ... you're able to do it consistently, that's the main thing.
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Emphasis on focusing trading approach to maximize returns quickly and, crucially, consistently.
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Law of large numbers edge exploitation
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Increase the number of independent trades to allow probabilities to realize expected outcomes.
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I want to have a two to one profit to a risk relationship but ... let's start with a three to one ... say you're able to capture 15 gains on the upside ... you're able to keep your losses contained at 5.
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Specifies preferred risk-reward targets (3:1, example 15% gain vs 5% loss).
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Adjusted reward-to-risk calculation
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A method to compute effective reward-to-risk by incorporating win rate (batting average) into payoff assessment.
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when you hit your heads you got paid three dollars and when the coin landed on tails you lost a dollar
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Simple payoff example to show an asymmetric reward-to-risk on a 50/50 outcome.
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what trading is not about is trying to figure out to get the biggest gain ... to buy at the lows that's virtually impossible
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Warning against trying to time perfect tops/bottoms or capture absolute peaks; emphasizes it's unnecessary and often infeasible.
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roll this over as many times as possible
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Advocates reusing the favorable risk-reward bets frequently to compound returns.
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Warning: Ignoring win rate when evaluating reward-to-risk
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Overestimating or underestimating true expectancy, leading to poor sizing or strategy choice
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Warning: Focusing on getting the biggest gain or buying exact lows
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Missed opportunities, poor execution, and likely worse results because perfect timing is infeasible
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Warning: Cutting winners too early (choking off gains)
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Reduces realized upside and undermines the intended risk-reward relationship
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Warning: Allowing losses to grow or failing to contain risk
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Erodes the positive edge and can turn a profitable strategy into a losing one
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Risk-reward focus
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Design trades with a favorable profit-to-risk ratio (preferably 3:1, minimum 2:1) so average winners outweigh losers.
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Risk-Reward Leveraging
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Small controlled losses and larger, less-frequently captured gains can produce outsized returns even with modest win rates.
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Law of large numbers
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Over many independent trials, outcomes will converge towards expected probabilities, reducing variance of average result.
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If you can be right 50% of the time you should do very well if you follow the formula of capturing the gain right ... versus what cost as far as cutting your loss and keeping your risk contained.
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Connects win rate (around 50%) with the need to manage gain capture and loss containment to create an edge.