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Risk Pattern Analysis

Monitor the risk patterns that recur throughout your trading, and where you stand today.
Risk patterns
  • Most damaging risk pattern: The risk pattern responsible for the largest share of your total losses, with its loss contribution.
  • Most frequent habit: The trading habit that appears most often across your trades.
  • Detailed analysis: Risk patterns and insight data broken down by detailed conditions.

Detailed Analysis Items

The concept and monitoring conditions of each risk pattern item.

1. Entry Risk

  • Unplanned entry: You never wrote a pre-trade scenario between opening and closing the trade.
  • Immediate re-entry after a stop-out (emotional trading): You took a loss on a position and opened a new position in the same symbol within 15 minutes. (If you wrote a pre-trade scenario, entering within 15 minutes is not counted as emotional trading.)
  • Impulsive trading (consecutive entries): You opened a new position in the same symbol within 15 minutes of closing one, three or more times in a row. Adding to the same position three or more times also counts as impulsive trading. (If you pre-set a number of scale-in entries in your scenario, it only counts as impulsive trading when you exceed that number.)

2. Exit Risk

  • Stop-loss violation: You closed the final position at a worse price than the SL written in your journal. (Deviations under 0.3% are not counted as violations.)
  • Early take-profit: You closed the final position at a worse price than the TP written in your journal. (This only counts as an early take-profit if the market later reached your TP after you closed. If the market never reached your TP, it is not counted.)
  • Average stop-loss delay: The average deviation across all trades where the stop-loss was not respected.

3. Position Management Risk

  • Average R/R: Average profit divided by average loss.
  • Averaging-down frequency: How often you add orders while a position is under water.

4. Time Risk

  • Win rate by time of day: The distribution of your win rate by time of day, based on when positions were opened.

5. Emotion Risk

  • Emotional trading (immediate re-entry after a stop-out): You took a loss on a position and opened a new position in the same symbol within 15 minutes. (If you wrote a pre-trade scenario, entering within 15 minutes is not counted as emotional trading.)
  • Overconfident entry (immediate entry after a win): You took a profit on a position, opened a new position in the same symbol within 15 minutes, and lost.
  • Immediate reversal after a stop-out: You took a loss on a position and opened a new position in the same symbol in the opposite direction within 15 minutes.

Risk Score Criteria

Tradex computes risk scores from your trade data.

1. Emotional trading

  • Basis: The share of all trades classified as emotional trading

2. Unplanned entries

  • Basis: The share of trades without a pre-trade scenario

3. Stop-loss compliance

  • Basis: The share of trades where you held past your stop-loss or pushed it further out

4. Risk/reward ratio


Why Risk Pattern Analysis Matters

Risk management matters as much as returns. Even a high return can be wiped out by a single oversized loss. Tradex analyzes the risk patterns in your trading strategy to help you build one that lasts.