Glossary · Trading basics · P
Profit factor in plain English.
Gross profit divided by gross loss. Above 1.0 the winners outweigh the losers; 1.5 means $1.50 won for every $1 lost.
Track
Trading basics
29 terms in this track
Taught in
Journaling and review: learning from your own trades
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88 of 129
Filed under P
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The idea, in context
How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.
Reading the illustration
Price as candles, smoothed by an average (gold) and wrapped in a band — how chart signals are read.
In French: Facteur de profit (profit factor)
Where it’s taught
Trading basics
Journaling and review: learning from your own trades
“Journaling and review: learning from your own trades” introduces this term with worked examples, a quiz and the trades around it. The Academy is part of the YieldCove membership.
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Connected terms
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Where to go next
Understand it, try it with real numbers, then track it for free.
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