The only number that says whether a strategy makes money: what the average trade returns once the winners and the losers are weighed together.
A 70% win rate loses money if the losers are three times the winners. Expectancy collapses win rate and payoff into one figure, and if it is negative no amount of discipline will save it.
Enter the win rate from your own records.
Add the average winner and average loser.
Set how many trades you take a year.
Read what one trade is worth.
Short, practical answers. Trade-offs explained, no advice framing.
Shares from account size, risk percent and stop distance, so the loss is decided before the entry.
R-multiples from entry, stop and target, plus the win rate each ratio needs to break even.
What a steady return does to an account over years, with or without monthly deposits.