A losing streak is arithmetic, not a verdict
Risk · OnlyTrade trading school
At a 40% win rate, six losses in a row happen roughly once every twenty trades — not rarely, routinely. The mistake is not the streak; it is what people do in it: doubling size to «get it back», or abandoning a plan after the exact number of losses it was always going to produce. Decide in advance how large a drawdown makes you stop and review, write it down, and let arithmetic rather than mood tell you when you have hit it.
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Written by the OnlyTrade team as a general explanation of a market mechanic. It uses no live market data.
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