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Over trading, journaling en de tools die we bij Tradeways bouwen.
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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BasisWoordenlijstHow 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.
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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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WoordenlijstPositiegrootteKelly criterion
The Kelly criterion is the fraction of capital to bet on each trade that maximizes the long-run geometric growth rate of your account.
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