Every abbreviation, technical concept, and statistical metric used in the dashboard. Written for someone who's coming to systematic trading cold, but useful as a reference long after.
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Performance metrics
Risk management
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Risk per trade
Maximum equity percentage you're willing to lose on one trade.
Drawdown
Current loss from peak equity, expressed as %.
Margin
Cash collateral the broker reserves to hold an open leveraged position.
Leverage
Ratio of position notional to account equity. Higher = more risk per move.
Stop lossSL
Pre-set price level that auto-closes a losing trade.
Take profitTP
Pre-set price level that auto-closes a winning trade at target.
Correlation budget
Limiting effective open positions when correlation between them is high.
Kill switch
Automatic halt-trading trigger when loss limits hit.