Win rate is winning trades divided by total closed trades, expressed as a percentage. Close 17 winners out of 25 trades and your win rate is 68%. That's it — but the catch is that win rate says nothing about how much you won or lost. A 90% win rate with tiny gains and one giant loss can lose money. A 35% win rate with disciplined risk-reward can print money. Win rate is half the equation; avg win versus avg loss is the other half.
Out of 25 closed trades, 17 were profitable and 8 were losers.
Bands depend entirely on your style: - Below 35% — only sustainable if your winners are 3x+ your losers. Trend-followers and breakout traders live here. - 35% to 50% — common for swing traders running 1.5–2R targets. - 50% to 60% — typical of mean-reversion and intraday scalpers. - 60% to 75% — high-probability setups, often paired with smaller R:R. - Above 75% — suspicious unless paired with negative skew (small wins, occasional big losses). Check your loser sizing before celebrating.
Win rate without R:R context is a vanity number. Always read it together with profit factor or expectancy.
Win rate is the first number every trader looks at and the last one they should rely on. It tells you about your decision-making consistency — how often your entries actually played out — but it never tells you whether the strategy makes money.
In TradeOnyx win rate sits front-and-centre in the Overview tab KPI tile, with the win/loss split as a small caption underneath (e.g. `12W · 5L`) so you always see the sample size driving the percentage. Every period filter — today, week, month, year, all-time — recomputes it instantly, so you can spot the week your win rate dropped sharply.
There's a second place TradeOnyx surfaces it: the Calendar tab colours each trading day green or red based on the win-rate of that day's trades. So when you scan the month at a glance, you see exactly which days your decision-making held up and which days it broke down — that's the kind of pattern a single all-time number can never show you.