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Trade Analysis

The Trade Analysis tab: the R distribution, the win rate ring, every trade in the log, and the notes.

The Performance tab tells you how much a strategy made. Trade Analysis tells you how: what its trades looked like, how many won, which ones did the work, and whether a good headline came from many steady trades or a couple of lucky ones.

Everything on this tab describes the whole run. It does not follow the window presets on the Performance tab.

The Trade Analysis tab
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The R distribution with its average markers beside the win rate ring

R Distribution

The histogram sorts every closed trade by its result measured in R: the trade's profit or loss divided by the strategy's typical risk per trade, the average distance from entry to the protective stop. A trade at +2R made twice what a typical trade risked; a trade at −1R lost exactly its risk. Measuring in R lets you compare trades of different sizes on one scale.

Bars run from −3R to +5R in half-R steps. Anything beyond the ends is folded into the end bars, so nothing is hidden. Hover or tap a bar to see its range and how many trades landed there.

Three dashed lines mark Avg loss, Avg trade and Avg win, with their values printed beneath. Each line is drawn only where the run holds a trade of that kind. This is the quickest read on whether the average winner outweighs the average loser: a strategy that wins a quarter of the time can still come out ahead if its winners are four times its losers.

If risk per trade could not be measured for a run, the histogram is replaced by a sentence saying so. The trade log still lists every trade's own result.

Win Rate

The ring splits closed trades into wins and losses, and breakeven when there were any. The number in the middle is the run's win rate. Hover an arc for its count and share. A long-only strategy says so beneath the legend.

Because the ring covers the whole run, it can differ from the Win rate tile on the Performance tab once a preset narrows that tab. A breakeven trade counts in the total and in neither share, so wins plus losses need not reach the trade count.

The Trade Log

Above the log sits a copy of the equity curve, always the full run. It stays in view while you scroll the list, and selecting a trade highlights its stretch on the curve.

The log lists every trade, 100 to a page, newest first.

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Column
What it holds
#The trade's number in the run, counted from the first trade.
SideLong or Short.
EntryThe date the trade opened, over its fill price.
ExitThe date it closed, over its fill price.
P&LThe trade's return as a percent of its entry price.

Sorting. Click Entry, Exit or P&L to sort; click again to flip the direction. The arrow shows which column is ordering the list and which way.

Selecting. Click a row to select it and highlight it on the curve. Click it again to clear. If the trade you selected is not on the visible part of the curve, the chart says so.

Paging. The line at the bottom states the range shown and the total, for example "Showing trades 1 to 100 of 312: 311 closed · 1 open". Use the arrows to page.

The trade log
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The trade log listing number, side, entry, exit and result per trade, with one row selected

Open and Liquidated Trades

Open. A trade with the Open badge was still in progress when the data ended. Its exit price is marked mark, the last known price rather than a fill, and its return is marked unrealized. The run's win rate and profit factor leave it out; Net profit and the Trades count include it.

Liquidated. A short trade can carry a Liquidated label under its exit. A short position's loss has no ceiling, so a loss can run past the funds backing the position. When that happens the trade is closed the way a margin call would close it, at a price no order chose, and it counts as a closed trade like any other. Hover the label for the explanation.

Notes

At the foot of the tab, Scribe prints any caveats that apply to this run, in plain text.

  • Small sample. Too few trades, or too short a stretch of history, for the averages to be reliable. The note states the trade count and the bars covered. Win rate and profit factor move a lot at this size; loosening the entry usually firms the sample up.
  • Implausible profit factor. The ratio is too lopsided to state as measured. Verify in TradingView before trusting it.

No notes means neither applied.

When There Is Nothing to Analyze

"The entry conditions never fired in this window" means the strategy never traded; try a looser entry. "No closed trades in this window" means it entered but has not exited yet, so there is no settled result to show until it does.

Reading a Result Well

A few habits turn these figures into a judgment:

  1. Start with the sample. A 55% win rate on twenty trades is eleven wins; one trade landing the other way reads 50%. A 24% win rate on two hundred trades is a real pattern. Trust the averages in proportion to the trades behind them.
  2. Ask where the profit came from. The summary in the chat names how much of the winning profit came from the single best trade, and the longest losing streak. A run carried by one trade is thinner evidence than the same total spread across many, and a streak you would not have sat through did not really return what its curve shows.
  3. Weigh wins against losses, not just the count. The R distribution and the three averages tell you whether the winners are big enough to pay for the losers.
  4. Compare against doing nothing. The Performance tab draws the strategy against buy & hold for a reason. A positive return that trails the market is not an edge.
  5. When in doubt, take it to TradingView. Transfer the strategy and let its Strategy Tester replay the same rules as a second opinion.

To change the strategy and see what moves, continue to Tweaking Your Strategy.