Glossario
Glossario del trading
I numeri e i termini che descrivono un Edge di trading, definiti senza gergo e collegati agli strumenti che li utilizzano.
Escursione e qualità del Trade
Quanto un Trade ti ha dato, quanto ha messo a rischio e quanto hai lasciato sul tavolo.
R-multiple
3 min di letturaAn R-multiple expresses a trade result as profit or loss measured in units of the initial risk you put at stake when you entered.
Realized vs. unrealized P&L
3 min di letturaRealized P&L is profit booked when you close a position; unrealized P&L is the open, mark-to-market gain or loss on positions still running.
Breakeven win rate
3 min di letturaThe minimum percentage of trades you need to win to break even at a given reward-to-risk ratio, before costs.
Edge e aspettativa
Le metriche che mostrano se una strategia genera davvero profitti.
Trading expectancy
3 min di letturaExpectancy is the average profit or loss you can expect per trade, measured across a large sample of trades rather than any single outcome.
Profit factor
3 min di letturaProfit factor is your gross profit divided by your gross loss — the total dollars your winners made against the total dollars your losers cost.
Win rate
3 min di letturaWin rate is the share of your closed trades that finished in profit, expressed as a percentage.
Average win / average loss
3 min di letturaThe payoff ratio: your mean profit per winning trade divided by your mean loss per losing trade, measuring how much winners outsize losers.
Sharpe ratio
3 min di letturaThe Sharpe ratio measures risk-adjusted return: your average excess return over the risk-free rate divided by the volatility of your returns.
Rischio e dimensionamento delle posizioni
Dimensiona ogni Trade, sopravvivi ai Drawdown e proteggi il capitale.
Position sizing
3 min di letturaPosition sizing is deciding how much to trade so each position risks a controlled, predetermined slice of your account.
Kelly criterion
3 min di letturaThe Kelly criterion is the fraction of capital to bet on each trade that maximizes the long-run geometric growth rate of your account.
Maximum drawdown
3 min di letturaMaximum drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough decline in account equity over a period, measured in currency or percent.
Drawdown recovery
3 min di letturaDrawdown recovery is the percentage gain needed to climb back to a prior equity peak after a loss — and it grows faster than the loss itself.
Nozioni di base sugli strumenti
Le unità in cui i Broker quotano i prezzi: pips, lotti, margine e leva.
Pip
3 min di letturaA pip is the standard smallest price increment quoted in a forex pair, usually the fourth decimal place (0.0001), or the second (0.01) for JPY pairs.
Lot size
3 min di letturaLot size is the standardized quantity of an instrument you buy or sell per trade unit — the block your broker measures every position in.
Margin
3 min di letturaMargin is the capital your broker requires you to post as collateral to open and hold a leveraged position.
Leverage
3 min di letturaLeverage lets you control a position larger than your deposited capital using broker margin, expressed as a ratio such as 30:1.
Altri termini
Aggiunte recenti non ancora assegnate a un campo.
Hawkish vs. Dovish: What They Actually Mean
3 min di letturaTwo words carry most of the meaning in central-bank commentary. Hawkish leans toward tighter money; dovish leans toward easier money. The nuance, and the mistakes, come from what they are measured against.
How to Read a Central Bank Statement
6 min di letturaA rate decision is rarely the news. The news is what changed since the last one: the guidance, the votes, the projections, the balance sheet. This is how to read a policy statement the way desks do, by comparison.