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Over trading, journaling en de tools die we bij Tradeways bouwen.
How to Read a Central Bank Statement
A 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.
BasisWoordenlijstHawkish vs. Dovish: What They Actually Mean
Two 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.
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BasisWhy the Change Matters More Than the Statement
The market has read this month’s rate decision before it prints. What it hasn’t priced is the wording that quietly changed since last time. The edge is in reading the diff, not the document.
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WoordenlijstMetricsR-multiple
An R-multiple expresses a trade result as profit or loss measured in units of the initial risk you put at stake when you entered.
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WoordenlijstMetricsRealized vs. unrealized P&L
Realized 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.
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WoordenlijstMetricsBreakeven win rate
The minimum percentage of trades you need to win to break even at a given reward-to-risk ratio, before costs.
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WoordenlijstMetricsTrading expectancy
Expectancy is the average profit or loss you can expect per trade, measured across a large sample of trades rather than any single outcome.
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WoordenlijstMetricsProfit factor
Profit factor is your gross profit divided by your gross loss — the total dollars your winners made against the total dollars your losers cost.
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WoordenlijstMetricsWin rate
Win rate is the share of your closed trades that finished in profit, expressed as a percentage.
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WoordenlijstMetricsAverage win / average loss
The payoff ratio: your mean profit per winning trade divided by your mean loss per losing trade, measuring how much winners outsize losers.
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WoordenlijstMetricsSharpe ratio
The Sharpe ratio measures risk-adjusted return: your average excess return over the risk-free rate divided by the volatility of your returns.
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WoordenlijstPositiegroottePosition sizing
Position sizing is deciding how much to trade so each position risks a controlled, predetermined slice of your account.
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