Forum Trade Explorer Details � Doubt about Drawdown and Run-Up

[ircakesyna]

The irony is that many traders with 100% drawdown had come to be in profit before. The ego, overconfidence and lack of management destroyed them. That should teach you that no matter how much you earn, but how much you can maintain. The game is not making money, it is keeping it.

[140355]

100% in that metric does not mean that everything has always been lost from the initial capital. It means that from the best point of return, the account fell completely. It�s a way to visualize the real risk of the operation. If you don�t manage well, temporary success is useless. Everything can evaporate.

[AxNesSdes64]

This happens because most operate as if the drawdown was a myth. �It�s not going to happen to me.� Until it happens. 100% is brutal, but common when there is no discipline. Take it as a mirror of the worst scenario, and adjust so it�s not yours.

[dCCuchiCu]

I had an account that reached 97% of drawdown. Literally there was a sigh left. It was my best lesson. Since then, I never let a loss eat more than 2% of my capital per operation. There is no glory in sinking out of pride.

[cesrSttcwntes]

Perhaps the problem is not to understand the data, but that many refuse to accept it. When you see your own drawdown approaching 100%, you enter into denial. But the market does not forgive those who do not accept the reality. And less if you go without helmet and without stop loss.

[SesntesnesCoSesnuo]

Trade Explorer is brutally honest. Don�t make up your mistakes or hide your insanity. If you made a fool of yourself, it�s there for everyone. And the worst thing is that there�s always one who gets 100% and keeps saying �it was just bad luck.� No, man. It was terrible management.

[axNora]

That metric exists to make you ashamed, literally, so that when you see it, you wonder how you got there, and if you don't feel ashamed, worse, because then you're doomed to repeat it.

[axruaaxtoa1006]

Many look at the profit, but few look at the drawdown. And that�s where a trader�s skill is really measured. Anyone can win with luck. But keeping that red line down... that�s mastery. That�s the statistic that separates impulsives from consistents.

[desnnyguresSda]

An account that shows 100% drawdown is technically dead. It almost always means that the balance went to zero or that there was a total loss from the historical peak. There�s nothing more to do there. Just watch and learn how not to do trading.

[VesiStBayToch]

If you ever reach 100%, pause. Breathe. And then ask yourself what was stronger: your system or your ego. Spoiler: it was the ego. The market punishes without anesthesia those who think they are invincible. Learn to lose little to be able to last long.