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Card #c8IR // #c8Synthesis

This highlights a vital aspect of trading: success is not about being right most of the time. Instead, it is about ensuring that your winning trades are large enough to outweigh your losses.

— In our words · Source: TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) (Crede Sheehy-Kelly & Andrew Aziz)

[Use when]

When a low win rate tempts you to abandon a working system.

[Why it matters]

Seven years of ORB research: stopped out 75% of the time, profitable on 25%, and still beating the market — expectancy, not win rate, is the scoreboard.

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